Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Many a “learned” man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him’ (Hadrat Ahmed ibn… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“Unlike the traditionally accepted theories of evolution and natural selection, Black’s view stressed that mutations are not accidents; instead, they are the… — E.B. Hudspeth Copy Share Image
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate! — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“With DNA as with words, the sequence carries the meaning. Dissolve DNA into its constituent bases, and it turns into a primordial… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections, whereas nobody seems to care about the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics?… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats… — Glenn Beck 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
The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“every single CRISPR region had expanded to include a new snippet of DNA spliced between the repeats. Furthermore, these new spacers perfectly… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
“Scarily, cadmium is not even the worst poison among the elements. It sits above mercury, a neurotoxin. And to the right of… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
“Neither a light nor a dark lesson is more justified than the other, neither is more powerful, both equal in their opportunity… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
“Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with… — Ed Kashi Copy Share Image
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
![“The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c9b/elizabeth-gilbert-131_accepting_the-silly-putty-like-malleability-of-the_904470.jpg)
