Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I wonder, What is it to be human? Especially now that we are so urban. How do we remember our connection with… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start… — Big Show Copy Share Image
I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news.… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
“Our dietary problems arise from a mismatch between the tastes evolved for Stone Age conditions and their likely effects today. Fat, sugar,… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
“Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose.… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.... — Nick Matzke Copy Share Image
If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting. — Dorothy Maclean Copy Share Image
It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately,… — Betty Cuthbert Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.” — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
“He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene… — Helen Simonson 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
The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
“A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is… — Paul Horowitz Copy Share Image
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. Because of the fact that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all… — Sheila Kelley Copy Share Image
“Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“My hand-stitched wings itch to take flight to test the winds of change that inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.” — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not… — Charlize Theron 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
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it is important to stay open to the world around you, so that you are constantly in a state of… — Cara Santana Copy Share Image
