“we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
“These early, single-celled organisms unwittingly transformed Earth’s carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into one with sufficient oxygen to allow aerobic organisms to emerge and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We need to move beyond Darwinian Theory, which stresses the importance of individuals, to one that stresses the importance of the community.… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
“In 1996 the Vatican, fresh from its magnanimous reconciliation with Galileo a mere 350 years after his death, publicly announced that evolution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
“Rububiyyah: Lordship, the quality of being a lord. A term derived from the Qur'anic descriptions of Allah's lordship over creation. One might… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Thus by an unprejudiced observation of the animal kingdom, we reach the conclusion that wherever society exists at all, this principle may… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books,… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the… — William James Copy Share Image
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems. — W. Richard Stevens Copy Share Image
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines -… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
