“Darwinian adaptation to environment applies not only to nature but also to society. Just as you don't find eagles living in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“We can now apply our lessons from our discussion of multilevel selection: if there are two levels of selection operating on a… — Gerald F. Gaus Copy Share Image
“What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We’d all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“4 Meet the astrocyte If you look at a tulip, you wouldn’t think it was an armadillo. Similarly, looking at a neuron,… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is all too easy to confuse fundamentalism with passion. I may well appear passionate when i defend evolution against a fundamentalist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
“True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength… — Darrell Calkins Copy Share Image
Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
“Even if the intelligent design of some structure has been established, it still is a separate question whether a wise, powerful, and… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Causes of Variability — Effects of Habit and the use and disuse of Parts — Correlated Variation — Inheritance — Character of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Finding outcrops is easy in arid and mountainous areas, where naked rock lies basking in the sun. But in humid and topographically… — Marcia Bjornerud Copy Share Image
“The world to come will be like this triangular railroad junction, raised to some unknown power. The earth has lived through several… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case,… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image