“My own interest in Herzen was sparked by an exception to this rule: Isaiah Berlin’s essays. These still seem to me to… — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the… — David Felten Copy Share Image
On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am influenced by philosophies like the one at Chelsea which was 'If it isn't broken, change it' which saw us… — Eniola Aluko Copy Share Image
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Dawkins claims that the living world came to be by way of unguided evolution: “the Evidence of Evolution,” he says, “Reveals a… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens,… — Mark Hyman Copy Share Image
“Science, even evolutionary science, bases its theories, its predictions, and its conclusions on the stability of physical laws. Evolutionary science makes the… — Henry Morris III Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Ernesto "Che" Guevara Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
“It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited… — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics… — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Dissection ... teaches us that the body of man is made up of certain kinds of material, so differing from each other… — Michael Foster Copy Share Image
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“Even properly functioning defenses are subject to activation errors, evolutionary/developmental mismatches and maladaptive learning; moreover, mechanisms that are initially functional may become… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ...… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
