The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As evolutionary neurobiologists Leah Krubitzer and Jon Kaas put it, Although the phenotype generated is context-dependent, the ability to respond to the… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein… — Oscar Hertwig Copy Share Image
You're always choosing the start point and the end point. And almost by definition, the most interesting period is where something happens,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We… — Cyril Ponnamperuma Copy Share Image
“So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
“Dawkins mentioned two mechanisms: the theory of the ‘primeval soup’ and the Cairns-Smith theory. He discussed the latter in some detail. Since… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“To see," the poet Paul Valery once wrote, "is to forget the name of the things that one sees." To see DNA… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Darwin's Theory Survival of the Fittest, also applies into Business. Companies which consistently innovate, keep itself updated with customer's needs, market trends,… — Ashu Gaur Copy Share Image
A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The telescope, in enabling us to look far out into space, also allows us to look back in time. Light travels at… — Richard Kurin Copy Share Image
I do believe in this evolution of consciousness as the only thing which we can embark on, or in fact, willy-nilly, are… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Most psychologists believe that nature—genetics—accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition.… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do I feel I should have been given more time? Of course I do. To go to a club like Manchester United… — David Moyes Copy Share Image
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“He was impressed with his father's fiction and noticed certain stylistic tics that he shared, and figured it was genetic. Why would… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“Truth is, there comes a time when turning a new page in your life is the most liberating and empowering feeling you… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
“We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
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