The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Evolution works only on how memory influences fitness, not for how accurately memory reflects the past per se.” — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained. — J. William Schopf Copy Share Image
“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That’s why the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls,” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game. — Patrick Vieira Copy Share Image
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result… — William Landay Copy Share Image
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It has been truthfully said that organic evolution is Satan's chief weapon in this dispensation in his attempt to destroy the divine… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
I am honored to be a part of that awesome talent, and to have experienced some of the pinnacle moments of the… — Ivory Copy Share Image
Ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“What is more of a symbol of eternal growth and change than the Goddess? The eternal spiral of creation. Coiled like a… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Causes of Variability — Effects of Habit and the use and disuse of Parts — Correlated Variation — Inheritance — Character of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Finding outcrops is easy in arid and mountainous areas, where naked rock lies basking in the sun. But in humid and topographically… — Marcia Bjornerud Copy Share Image
“The world to come will be like this triangular railroad junction, raised to some unknown power. The earth has lived through several… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano Copy Share Image
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“evolution only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.” — Martin Faulks Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Change is at the very core of evolution and without it, all creatures would look alike and behave the same way. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre. — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace. — Duane Allman Copy Share Image
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
