“Explaining evolution to a fundamentalist Christian is like trying to explain Calculus to someone with absolutely no grasp of Maths.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Evolution is all about turning "bugs" into "features", turning "noise" into "signal", and the fuzzy boundaries between these categories are not optional;… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
If we could really measure our brain's activity, it would be a historical turning point for Homo sapiens, making radical human cognitive… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
“The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million; biology took away… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All religions, at one point or another in their evolution tried to proclaim their single, inerrant consistency. All religions even the most… — Sarah Miles Copy Share Image
If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“It is fiercely inventive. It squeezes complexity out of simplicity. It orchestrates the activation or repression of certain genes in only certain… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The extracellular genesis of cells in animals seemed to me, ever since the publication of the cell theory [of Schwann], just as… — Robert Remak Copy Share Image
An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“The evolved preference for sugary and fatty foods (a functional mechanism) may lead to obesity because of a mismatch with modern nutrition… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
You can look at mixed martial arts and you can look at the way the teams and the best gyms in the… — Dan Hooker Copy Share Image
Life has to evolve, therefore changes on our day to day experiences will occur. Whether good or bad, it is better to… — Nerissa Neri Copy Share Image
Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
“Weber sandstone a billion years old. This rock was Precambrian, I read, a term like postmodern, suggesting that what it names is… — Jim Paul Copy Share Image
Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps,… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast… — Randall L. Stephenson Copy Share Image
The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
“the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
“To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Far from feeling dwarfed by the vast reaches and energy of the cosmos, what we really learn is that we are the… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image