“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
[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
“Since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from… — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the… — William James Copy Share Image
“Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately… — William Paley Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
“To visualize this dance, the transparent components of the cell had to be coloured using a stain. As it happened, the stains… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
American tohught re: spiritual evolutionI don't think we can say it's actually so new but I think evolutionary evolution American style is… — Julia Copy Share Image
“The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
“What is that 95 percent? Some is junk—remnants of pseudogenes inactivated by evolution.fn4,3 But buried in that are the keys to the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Let's look at one more quick example of modern evolution at work. In the early 1800s, light-colored lichens covered many of the… — David Mills 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
“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
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
“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 had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the…” quote by Francis Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/312/francis-collins-5281_analysis_i-had-the-analysis-of-a-million-or-so-sn_3144554.jpg)
![“[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial bodies to FIRE or to WATER; and ... their followers have of late been distinguished by the fanciful names of Vulcanists and Neptunists. To the…” quote by John Playfair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/081/john-playfair-46821_agency_to-explain-the-phenomena-of-the-mineral_707668.jpg)
![“Since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from very early deposits, we have no right to infer the disappearance of types because their absence disproves some favorite [i.e., Darwinian] theory.”25” quote by Stephen C. Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f91/stephen-c-meyer-34460_darwinian_since-the-most-exquisitely-delicate-stru_2793089.jpg)
![“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin’s paper, “we may still appreciate the role of Darwin in helping scientists [win an] upper hand in fighting against the creationists.” quote by David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0de/david-berlinski-16009_dead-end_whatever-the-degree-to-which-darwin-may_342124.jpg)
![“In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e…” quote by Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ce9/michael-denton-33607_advocacy_in-a-very-real-sense-therefore-advocacy_1630981.jpg)
