Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Why run? I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
I was such a huge fan of Harry Potter books. That's how I got into it. I had never really thought about… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
“Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Following our dreams and giving authority to the imaginal being within us to steward our lives may be just the action required… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Change can be scary, but you know what's more scary? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing. — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“God did not create evolution--evolution created God. The evolution of religion is as follows: animism--polytheism--monotheism--agnosticism--atheism. As history progresses, people worship fewer and… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ]… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“The forces that we deal with have two sides: one is good and helpful and the other is dark and dangerous. Part… — Gala.J Copy Share Image
The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wherever people are in their evolution, they start to come into that hope and feeling like they are okay, that they're going… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“This matter of how best to interpret the term "day" in Genesis 1 is not one over which evangelical believers should quarrel;… — John Christian Wenger Copy Share Image
“This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The Women's Evolution was just starting as I was getting into 'Tough Enough.' I've always had great role models coming in and… — Sonya Deville Copy Share Image
If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have… — William James Copy Share Image
I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences… — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The universe, in a big bang mode, is still expanding, which means it's cooling down, and evolution seems to be going against… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You want proof evolution is for real, don’t waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image