Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
“It is the impulse of science to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, because silicon packs on more protons than carbon, it's bulkier, like carbon with fifty extra pounds. Sometimes that's not a big… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present day occur… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“I believe in God because only an idiot can look at the complex balance of nature and believe that has not been… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“Synthetic biology was the transistor of the twenty-first century. Yet political realities in America made it increasingly unfeasible for entrepreneurs there to… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“There is a broad-based guideline, however, upon which most evolved souls have agreed. No action which causes hurt to another leads to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often require changes in shape.… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
If I could get every single cancer genome sequence that has been sequenced; if I could ever put it in one repository,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
You don't wanna know the sinner. You don't wanna know the killer. Because it's you. Television is stalling evolution. Medication is stalling… — Tablo Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
“In these times where it has seemed dark indeed where integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot… — Bruce Beutler Copy Share Image
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“There are several types of comparative analysis for garnering evidence for an evolutionary adaptation: structural or behavioral resemblance in different phyletic lines… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from… — James P. Hogan 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
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
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
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