“From a ball of mud taken from a birds plumage, Charles Darwin raised 82 separate plants, belonging to five distinct species!” — rachel carson Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
“I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. Because of the fact that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A radical move from the old Victorian orthodoxies of the kind Charles Darwin had subscribed to was underway. People could no longer… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is… — James Black Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“[...] it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“I recall the words of Charles Darwin in his Autobiography. ‘I rejoice that I have avoided controversies, and this I owe to… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last… — Ghiselle St. James Copy Share Image
“Absorbingly articulate and infinitely intelligent . . . There is nothing pop about Kahneman's psychology, no formulaic story arc, no beating you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“And in 1956, Sir Charles Darwin, grandson of the Charles Darwin, wrote an essay on the forthcoming Age of Leisure in the… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“efore the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series of books began to appear in 1979, the scientific autobiography was a largely unfamiliar genre.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
“A shy man no doubt dreads the notice of strangers, but can hardly be said to be afraid of them. He may… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question."… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin got totally hammered, woke up next to a monkey and decided he had to come up with a theory to… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
