The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as… — Huntington Willard Copy Share Image
“The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behaviour at this time are those… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins 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
“Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'. — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“This was borne out again in October 1996 when Pope John Paul II, standing in the context of a train of Catholic… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game. — Patrick Vieira Copy Share Image
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
