Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Common sense says that the amazing complexity of life cannot arise out of a random process. The neo-Darwinians use clever arguments to… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
“Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
“Metabolically active cells, such as those of the liver, kidneys, muscles, and brain, have hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, making up some… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately… — William Paley Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the… — William James Copy Share Image
I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
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“Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Let's look at one more quick example of modern evolution at work. In the early 1800s, light-colored lichens covered many of the… — David Mills Copy Share Image
“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
“What is that 95 percent? Some is junk—remnants of pseudogenes inactivated by evolution.fn4,3 But buried in that are the keys to the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“To visualize this dance, the transparent components of the cell had to be coloured using a stain. As it happened, the stains… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
American tohught re: spiritual evolutionI don't think we can say it's actually so new but I think evolutionary evolution American style is… — Julia Copy Share Image
“The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Those who have lost loved ones to situations from which their bodies could not be recovered often suffer from prolonged periods of… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific… — James A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“There are many examples where species share common plastic traits. What appears to be convergence may just be the plastic response of… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago,… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
![“Since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from very early deposits, we have no right to infer the disappearance of types because their absence disproves some favorite [i.e., Darwinian] theory.”25” quote by Stephen C. Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f91/stephen-c-meyer-34460_darwinian_since-the-most-exquisitely-delicate-stru_2793089.jpg)
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