Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible.… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
If belief in evolution is a requirement to be a real scientist, it’s interesting to consider a quote from Dr. Marc Kirschner,… — Marc Kirschner Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem:… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Gaia spoke in a complex language of predator and prey, of growth and dormancy, of birth and migration, of seasonal change, of… — Linda Nagata Copy Share Image
When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“Finally, only thirty or forty million years before, our earliest ancestors had crawled out of the primeval slime; and then, no doubt,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so… — Craig Venter 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
Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
“In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors.… — Elon Musk 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 radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d20/c-s-lewis-2-132_argument_i-wish-i-were-younger-what-inclines-me-n_2372727.jpg)
