“Selection is both revolutionary and disturbing for the same reason: it explains apparent design in nature by a purely materialistic process that… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Ours is a time of space telescopes, electron microscopes, supercomputers, and the worldwide web. This is not a time for parsing the… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Dawkins asserts that final causes and design don't really exist. Unguided evolution explains it all. Francis Crick thought the same thing but… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
“The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . .… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for God cherishes all creatures. God is not only the creator, but is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution… — Zeina Copy Share Image
In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Evolution created a violent order where beings eat other beings. Till we change this order and create a harmony between all beings,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“In the study, researchers injected a gene called Tbx18 into the pigs’ hearts. This gene, which is also found in humans, reprogrammed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
My own growth is a part of a group evolution, definitely. It does feel as if the changes in the group are… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
I do a lot of work with NASA and am involved in research projects studying planetary evolution, Earth-like planets, and potential conditions… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One is a content-first strategy because you need… — Stephanie McMahon Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. Why, I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image