I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
I think that's part of my evolution: realizing that I can say 'no' to things, even when I'm faced with that lull… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“While the process of evolution is often characterized in terms of dog-eat-dog competition and the “survival of the fittest,” this new research… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving,… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could… — Bruce Beutler Copy Share Image
We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also… — Patrick Chappatte Copy Share Image
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes… — John Green Copy Share Image
Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ...… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“Dedicated to the memory of MY FATHER. For if I had not believed that he would have wished me to give such… — Leonard Darwin Copy Share Image
“Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.” — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the… — Zeresenay Alemseged Copy Share Image