The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is… — Reginald Aldworth Daly Copy Share Image
…You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The common thread of the series is that these are the books that Elephant and Piggie like to read. Elephant and Piggie… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We’re at the point where we don’t need one genome or just a few genomes to interpret your genome. We need tens… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“gene, the mutation of whose DNA building blocks accelerated after the split between humans and chimpanzees, around 5.5 million years ago. The… — D.F. Swaab Copy Share Image
The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Muller was catapulted into the international fame by his discovery. The effect of radiation on the mutation rate in flies had two… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
“The propounders of what are called the "ethics of evolution," when the 'evolution of ethics' would usually better express the object of… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“As emphasized in the last chapter, epigenetic changes can be multi-generational.8 Dogma was that all the epigenetic marks (i.e., changes in the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Push up some mountains. Cut them down. Drown the land under the sea. Push up some more mountains. Cut them down. Push… — Keith Meldahl Copy Share Image
“It is the form of hemoglobin, then, that permits its function. The physical structure of the molecule enables its chemical nature, the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
“Indeed, nothing less than the understanding of God’s earth was in flux. For centuries, the church had censored scientific ideas that were… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
“Some scientists thrive on the conceptual; their minds can envision particles that the most powerful microscopes can’t show us; processes that can’t… — William M. Bass Copy Share Image
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image