Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it. — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“If populations can interbreed with each other in their natural habitat, they belong to the same species. Of course, with fossil animals,… — Lee R Berger Copy Share Image
These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that happen in everyone's life. People do… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
“Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can,… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Intelligent Design is fraught with even more difficulties, as it suggests God as one who dips His hand in every now and… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
“When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
“What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Frankly, we don’t know. Another singular… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The world keeps changing, creating new possibilities. Therefore I can keep changing and become even more than I thought possible.” — The Thoughtful Beast Copy Share Image
We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time… — Leonard Hayflick Copy Share Image
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
In some ways, to believe in evolution is almost like a following; a cult following - if you don't believe in evolution,… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those.… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“No other animal had ever moved into such a huge variety of radically different habitats so quickly, everywhere using virtually the same… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
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