...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level… — David Lack Copy Share Image
While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility.… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion's general pattern required… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges,… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time.… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“So I guess maybe that’ll be the next step in evolution – to break clean like those first amphibians who crawled out… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend"… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous… — George Wald Copy Share Image
It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
“The reason evolution bestows all intelligent life with a desire to climb higher is far more profound than more base needs, even… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
People think I like partying, but I actually don't like going out. I'm a homebody. I like chilling in with friends and… — Tinchy Stryder Copy Share Image
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The evolution has to take place still within us to know ourselves. We can say that unless and until it is put… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
