Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Each ribosome had more than fifty different components. If you broke down a slew of them into their separate parts and thoroughly… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Lest anyone dispute that the Bible is not the inspired Word of God but rather the direct and dictated Word of God,… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
“He saw that there is a spectrum of variation between species that comes into being slowly, tiny change by tiny change. He… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the… — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple… — Greg Zeschuk Copy Share Image
Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“Our bones are more gracile than those of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors, our personalities less aggressive, our societies more trusting and cohesive.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more.… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is a mirror of our inner… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have… — William James Copy Share Image
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Many textbooks point out that no animal has evolved wheels and cite the fact as an example of how evolution is often… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“It is a testament to the unsettling beauty of the genome that it can make the real world “stick.” Our genes do… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“The teaching conundrum had been solved. Teaching evolves where the costs are outweighed by the inclusive fitness benefits that result from the… — Kevin N Laland Copy Share Image
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