Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life. — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
When we talk about the rise of tribalism, I think the evolution of media in the '90s and beyond is a huge… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution,… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Machine Man faithfully believes that conscious intelligent life came by chance from unconscious, dumb and dead matter that nobody suddenly made out… — Arne Klingenberg Copy Share Image
“Let's look at one more quick example of modern evolution at work. In the early 1800s, light-colored lichens covered many of the… — David Mills Copy Share Image
“Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Often, in books, I find female power to be cartoonish - power is a process, an evolution - it has responsibilities. It's… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new… — William King Gregory Copy Share Image
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million… — Charles Galton Darwin Copy Share Image
Gigabit LTE will be an important technology evolution because that puts demands on the rest of the network to basically be -… — Borje Ekholm Copy Share Image
“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image