“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Depressed people become unable to remember happy times, or times when they even had a normal mood. The very concept of a… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Biological databases impose particular limitations on how biological objects can be related to one another. In other words, the structure of a… — Hallam Stevens Copy Share Image
I wonder, What is it to be human? Especially now that we are so urban. How do we remember our connection with… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This… — John Hagel Copy Share Image
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in… — David Stoddart Copy Share Image
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you are going on a spiritual path, as I explain it, you are basically raising your vibration. You then begin to… — Dan Desmarques Copy Share Image
“... two little patches of tissue essentially control the development of the pattern of bones inside limbs. A strip of tissue at… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Will it be possible to solve these problems? It is certain that nobody has thus far observed the transformation of dead into… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
“Aside from the decorum of ancient thought as opposed to the coarseness of fresh ink, I have spent some time phrasing the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss." "What?" I ask. "The time it sticks. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Two forms or species are sympatric, if they occur together, that is if their areas of distribution overlap or coincide. Two forms… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
“Incandescent carbon particles, by the tens of millions, leap free of the log and wave like banners, as flame. Several hundred significantly… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Selection has favoured genes that cooperate with others. In the fierce competition for scarce resources, in the relentless struggle to eat other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If you were to condense Earth’s history into a single year, land-dwelling animals come onstage around December 1, and the dinosaurs don’t… — Joi Ito Copy Share Image
“From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much… — Friedrich Wohler Copy Share Image
I think spirituality, even if there's no God, even if there's nothing - I consider myself relatively spiritual. I believe in a… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
“here’s a highly simplified version of the next chapter’s focus on genes: (a) each gene specifies the production of a specific type… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
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