So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer. It doesn't produce the absolute perfection achievable by a designer starting from… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Genetic programming (GP) is a general optimization technique that is based on Darwin's theories on evolution and natural selection. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“My view is that diversity is the breath of life, and we must not abandon that for any single form which happens… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Instead of explaining everything by the supposed supremacy of a law of evolution, which compels collective phenomena to reproduce and repeat themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“No cataclysmic change since 1984--Energy-exchange system now about 4.5 billion years old--Plant life itself is about four billion years old--24 hour days… — Lou Voorhees Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists.… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The convergence of information technology and biology allows scientists to translate the human genome into digital data that can accelerate diagnoses and… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another,… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo - those were the three guys who said they do not believe in evolution. The… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
