Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks, evolution raises such profound questions of purpose, morality,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and… — Carl Woese Copy Share Image
“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Consider statements like ‘Evolution disproves God’ and ‘The universe created itself’ or ‘nothing created something’- at least two of those statements plainly… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
“... Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case,… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is strong geological evidence that the period from 380 million to 365 million years ago is the critical time. The younger… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to… — Amadeus William Grabau Copy Share Image
And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Why run? I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
“Far from being a homogenous "Big Science," biotechnology is highly diversified and heterogeneous. "The" human genome is not a single database, but… — Eduardo Kac Copy Share Image
“Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
“I’ll be hanged if I can understand how it concerns Evolution to get us out of a mere scrape.” “Out of all… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image