The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
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I try to outline. I'm a lazy outliner. I will put the points down of each chapter or series of chapters, but… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Like the master score of a bewitchingly complex symphonic work, the genome contains the instructions for the development and maintenance of organisms.… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
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I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
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By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The Tae-Bo guy has a good body on him. I believe in evolution as far as lifting and training and building muscle.… — Roman Reigns Copy Share Image
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In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
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I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
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“Virtually all the authors of popular books on the subject assert that ADD is a heritable genetic disorder. With some notable exceptions,… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
“Horvitz and his colleagues discovered several genes that coded for the effectors of cell death in nematodes—the death genes. Their findings were… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
![“To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation [i.e., time, chance, and chemistry], how has it come into being? I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the…” quote by Henry Lipson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fbe/henry-lipson-67301_acceptable_to-my-mind-the-theory-of-evolution-does_204667.jpg)
