“The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.” — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained. — J. William Schopf Copy Share Image
“The process of devolution would sweep this away like it had everything else.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Are there really other things in life besides music? - Avery Jones in Love Evolution” — Michelle Mankin Copy Share Image
“To banish the Hideous Damsel's darkness is to sterilize one's chance at the evolution she brings.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are… — Wolfgang Paul Copy Share Image
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“In general, placental animals would move slower than marsupials, which can collect their young (e.g., in pouches) and continue migrating. Many placental… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as… — Huntington Willard Copy Share Image
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I do sense, as compared with let's say the early '50s, there's somewhat more of a careerism. I don't think it's anything… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ]… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism.… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room." — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to… — Chip Walter Copy Share Image