I think it's the process of demystification, and realizing that we are not talking about some supernatural nightmare - we're talking about… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
“The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.” — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“It has repeated elements that appear frequently. A pesky, mysterious three-hundred-base-pair sequence called Alu appears and reappears tens of thousands of times,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The experiments progress slowly," Mendel wrote. "At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“These guys weren't just shmucks off the street. They had a reputation for being right about stuff. According to some histories, Berzelius… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“While we advance exponentially in technological capability, our spiritual or 'biological technology,' our maturity as a species, is still two or three… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not… — Herbert Spencer Jennings Copy Share Image
The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't… — Theodore Holmes Bullock Copy Share Image
“Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
We literally hand over our most private data, our DNA, but we're not just consenting for ourselves, we are consenting for our… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
The question is, are there useful things that we can do with the results of a genome sequence that would bring benefit?… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Thus evolved some members of the Core—not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Ray Comfort does it again! With simplicity and keen insight on the streets, he pulls back the curtain of Evolution and reveals… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image