It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
“Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive because at this very early stage there is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“As a known entity, DNA has been around longer than you might think. It was discovered as far back as 1869 by… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved.… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“We may regard the cell quite apart from its familiar morphological aspects, and contemplate its constitution from the purely chemical standpoint. We… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that throughout evolutionary history, the eye evolved… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
“According to the researchers' hypothesis, Earth's age should be about 4.6 billion years. According to the Bible, the creation of the earth… — Hadas Moosazadeh, Author Copy Share Image
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
“Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado River erode its… — Keith Meldahl Copy Share Image
Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks -… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“He tries not to think about The Core...but he couldn't deny it...they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children” — Natasha Larry Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's… — Alan I. Leshner Copy Share Image
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