Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA,… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“ERV envelope genes possess unique properties that make them suitable for use in forming the placenta: they are fusogenic proteins and they… — Michael G Cordingley Copy Share Image
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
“Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into "material" and "message," but abstractly, he had captured one of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
“Genetically speaking, humans are terrible research subjects. We're genetically promiscuous--we mate with anyone we choose--and we don't take kindly to scientists telling… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“The double-helix has solved all three of the major challenges of genetic physiology using ingenious variations on the same theme. Mirror-image chemicals… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The third cardinal feature of gene regulation, Monod and Jacob discovered, was that every gene had specific regulatory DNA sequences appended to… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
Over the years I have come to believe that life is full of unchosen circumstances, that being human has to do with… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Wars are an outdated way to try to solve conflicts, which is unacceptable in the 21st century. Instead of trying to conquer… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
![“It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the…” quote by Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/32b/douglas-adams-122_centre_it-takes-a-long-time-before-we-really-ge_1508473.jpg)
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![“The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of…” quote by Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f5c/chet-raymo-34749_alternatives_the-new-advocates-of-id-intelligent-desi_3232484.jpg)
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