“For many centuries people have believed that there is continuity between the individual in utero and the individual in the world; now… — Annie Murphy Paul Copy Share Image
“Historians and paleontologists have a great rivalry," said Tetsuo. "Most contact missions arrive too late, after history has ended. The people we… — Leonard Richardson Copy Share Image
“If beings with a head, two arms and two legs evolved ten million years before us, then they permanently affected the morphogenetic… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. A span of time that big is too mind-boggling to comprehend, so let’s collapse the… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind… Furthermore, no geological evidence… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Introns are not the exception in human genes; they are the rule. Human introns are often enormous-spanning several hundreds of thousands of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“In our every cell, furled at the nucleus, there is a ribbon two yards long and just ten atoms wide. Over a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Evolution has made us omnivores, and substantial quantities of meat can be produced by feeding plant matter whose production does not directly… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
“God is not a scientific hypothesis that might rival evolution. To think he is reduces the Creator to a creature, a highly… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any… — Ian Wilmut Copy Share Image
“There is one argument against evolution that deserves consideration. If man is evolving and progressing, why is man’s involvement in mass killings… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to… — John Tooby Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Theologians have by this time stretched their minds so as to embrace the darwinian facts, and yet to interpret them as still… — William James Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“This is direct evidence of evolution. We share so much with our placental mammalian cousins because we all had a common ancestor… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
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