The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'. — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“This was borne out again in October 1996 when Pope John Paul II, standing in the context of a train of Catholic… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game. — Patrick Vieira Copy Share Image
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Many quantum physics are realizing or hypothesizing that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“If we fail, the planet will grow sterile and your people will die in hunger, thirst and waves of plagues. Our people… — Robert Stikmanz Copy Share Image
“Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily distracted by what is in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts. — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest… — Norma Kamali Copy Share Image
God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for God cherishes all creatures. God is not only the creator, but is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill… — Peyton J Glenn Copy Share Image
There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image