It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest. — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“evolution doesn’t have much interest in protecting us anymore because we’re less likely to have—or be able to bear—children.” — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
“The reason or dog's evolution could be to guide humans to their higher purpose.” — Kristen Von Kreisler Copy Share Image
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I want to be a member of the team that helps in any way possible for the evolution of people's souls. Because… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the… — Dorothy Hodgkin Copy Share Image
My dad was Republican his whole life until he turned 65 and became like a born-again Democrat. And now he's a progressive,… — Jen Psaki Copy Share Image
Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
“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 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
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
“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Laziness is an easy solution to one of many simple things in life. But before we got elevators, everyone took the stairs.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Evolution is the ultimate example of how much a simple learning algorithm can achieve given enough data.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Evolution and genetics often seem to be an excuse for scientists and reporters to shut off their B.S. filters!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change. — Fred Polak Copy Share Image
Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All you speak of is evolution It's mind blowinq without direction and situation objection corruption. — Black Uhuru Copy Share Image
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty. — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy. — Torkom Saraydarian Copy Share Image
Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate. — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history. — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image