“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific… — James A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago,… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“There are many examples where species share common plastic traits. What appears to be convergence may just be the plastic response of… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Those who have lost loved ones to situations from which their bodies could not be recovered often suffer from prolonged periods of… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is all too easy to confuse fundamentalism with passion. I may well appear passionate when i defend evolution against a fundamentalist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength… — Darrell Calkins Copy Share Image
The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We’d all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“4 Meet the astrocyte If you look at a tulip, you wouldn’t think it was an armadillo. Similarly, looking at a neuron,… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“As emphasized in the last chapter, epigenetic changes can be multi-generational.8 Dogma was that all the epigenetic marks (i.e., changes in the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
“The propounders of what are called the "ethics of evolution," when the 'evolution of ethics' would usually better express the object of… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
“Muller was catapulted into the international fame by his discovery. The effect of radiation on the mutation rate in flies had two… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“Push up some mountains. Cut them down. Drown the land under the sea. Push up some more mountains. Cut them down. Push… — Keith Meldahl Copy Share Image
