Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion's general pattern required… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“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
“EVOLUTION RESTS ON three steps: (a) certain biological traits are inherited by genetic means; (b) mutations and gene recombination produce variation in… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment. In some cases, the appropriate medical intervention to mitigate… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing… — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
The Pleiadians are very much part of our evolution right now, and I think one of the most common questions people ask,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
“A tiger's DNA is also a 'duplicate me' program but it contains an almost fantastically large digression as an essential part of… — Richard Dawkins 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
“Rather surprisingly, to anyone who is most familiar with textbook mitochondria, many simple single-celled eukaryotes have mitochondria that operate in the absence… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image