Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
With the evolution of basketball there's always going to be new types of players and moves. — Aaron Gordon Copy Share Image
First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design. — E. Lee Spence Copy Share Image
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I am passionate about social issues and work hard in the community to positively impact the evolution of social ills. — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
“Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Nor have any Darwinians ever given, to this day, any such reconciliation of their theory with the teleological language which they employ… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of… — David Klinghoffer Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a… — Martin Berkeley Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
“In 1977, when Fred Sanger had sequenced the genome of the phiX virus, with 5,386 bases of DNA, that number represented the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of… — Raymond Dart Copy Share Image
If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff, — Ronald Breslow Copy Share Image
I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material. — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Self study leads to improvisation and improvisation leads to evolution.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.” — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA. — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Evolution doesn’t really have a destination. It’s just dicking around with possibilities.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image