“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We don't control everything. There are genetic influences. There are environmental exposures we don't control. I cannot guarantee anyone I counsel that… — David Katz Copy Share Image
“We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“It is pure fatalism, undiluted by environmental variability. Good living, good medicine, healthy food, loving families or great riches can do nothing… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson Copy Share Image
“The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion,… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
It depends on the arrangement. It could take 3 hours, it could take 3 days, it could take a week. 'Thrift Shop'… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“It has already been stated that various parts in the same individual, which are exactly alike during an early embryonic period, become… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“By the term regression I mean to convey something far more profound than a mere loss of progress. Societal regression is about… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In areas close to the ZPA, where there is a high concentration of this molecule, cells would respond by making a pinky.… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Even before the exact answer was reached, Crick crystallized its fundamental principles in a statement that he called (and is called to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young… — Sean Garrett Copy Share Image
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions,… — Alan Grant Copy Share Image
“Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: “Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
“All sorts of changes in cellular machinery have shown up that have nothing to do with the sequence of DNA but still… — Thomas Hayden Copy Share Image
AJ' is a very special movie to me. I have been watching Dinesh and Rajkumar from their initial days, and have witnessed… — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
