This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to… — Tamzin Merchant Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Geologists think the mountains were formed by several distinct tectonic events over the course of 500 million years, a span of time… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely… — Errol White Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy 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
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
“Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands evolution knows that it doesn't necessarily lead from simpler to more complex life-forms. Rather, it leads to life-forms better… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
“It is the way of evolution,” Elias says, his words getting lost in the roar of the wind. “Two species of human… — Quoleena Sbrocca Copy Share Image
“The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and… — John Wilbanks Copy Share Image
Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
“Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Traditional guidelines for manifestation in the three-dimensional world are not enough to ensure manifestation once one has begun the process of energetic… — Elaine Seiler Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
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