There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel's initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“What is natural selection? Do organisms develop due to an environment, or does the environment only trigger the potential to evolve in… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“However, I don’t understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“For evolution to be true, there would have been innumerable transitional forms between different types of creatures. Therefore, for every known fossil… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to… — Tamzin Merchant Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“Geologists think the mountains were formed by several distinct tectonic events over the course of 500 million years, a span of time… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely… — Errol White Copy Share Image
You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Instead of explaining everything by the supposed supremacy of a law of evolution, which compels collective phenomena to reproduce and repeat themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My view is that diversity is the breath of life, and we must not abandon that for any single form which happens… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It depends on the arrangement. It could take 3 hours, it could take 3 days, it could take a week. 'Thrift Shop'… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
“It has already been stated that various parts in the same individual, which are exactly alike during an early embryonic period, become… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“By the term regression I mean to convey something far more profound than a mere loss of progress. Societal regression is about… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In areas close to the ZPA, where there is a high concentration of this molecule, cells would respond by making a pinky.… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Even before the exact answer was reached, Crick crystallized its fundamental principles in a statement that he called (and is called to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young… — Sean Garrett Copy Share Image
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image