“Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at? A: I never… — Scopes Trial Copy Share Image
“To understand how the first tree appeared on Earth, we must look back more than 3 billion years to Earth’s cooling off… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“During most all of human evolution, it was adaptive to conserve energy by being lazy as circumstances permitted. Energy was a vitally… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second… — Adam Leith Gollner Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design offers few answers. For instance, when and how did a designing intelligence intervene in life’s history? By creating the first… — Scientific American Editors Copy Share Image
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could… — Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis Copy Share Image
As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival… — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that's a trivial point compared… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Death is only relevant to "genetic adaptation" insofar as it relates to the capacity for self-reproduction (what is relevant is not that… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that… — Wilhelm Johannsen Copy Share Image
“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided… — Maarten Boudry Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“Phenotype, in short, drags genotypes behind it, like a cart pulling a horse. It is the perennial conundrum of natural selection that… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Every time someone reaches out to you, even if it's to point out your sin and they seem to be judging you,… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“Now the leatherback turtle overcame the heat issue via a simple, but evolutionarily impossible solution; it is the only reptile that possesses… — B.C.CHASE Copy Share Image
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Sixty-some years ago, biochemical organisms began to assemble digital computers. Now digital computers are beginning to assemble biochemical organisms. Viewed from a… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“The factor VIII project, both teams knew, would challenge the outer limits of gene-cloning technology. Somatostatin had 14 amino acids; insulin had… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
![“The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets.” quote by Adam Leith Gollner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2d/adam-leith-gollner-36153_evolution_the-playwright-edward-albee-has-characte_830344.jpg)
![“Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.” quote by Lily Montagu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7f3/lily-montagu-82141_evolution_organized-religion-has-a-part-in-the-evo_7761.jpg)
