“The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We inherit a lot from our parents: mom's eyes, dad's chin, and the attitude of whichever parent isn't punishing you at the… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth';… — Laurie Davidson Copy Share Image
'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The actual structure of the life we know is deeply and pervasively anchored in the particularities of the periodic table. If one… — Eric Smith Copy Share Image
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
CALVIN: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“thought. Successionism means that one faith can replace a previous one that has ceased to function. In religious terms, it is comparable… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital… — Sybil Leek Copy Share Image
“What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital...the machine code of the genes… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we… — Paul Gilding Copy Share Image
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their… — Hannah Landecker Copy Share Image
The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys;… — Ron Rothfield Copy Share Image
“Genes do not determine disease on their own. Genes function only by being activated, or “expressed,” and nutrition plays a critical role… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“As I write this, organisms endowed with genomes are learning to change the heritable features of organisms endowed with genomes.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement… — Ronald Fisher 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
Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
“Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“epigenetic marks are the remote control not only to your health and longevity but also to how you pass your genes on… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its… — Samuel Wilberforce Copy Share Image
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image