The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species,… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
I've been saying that all along, that if you open the door for gay marriage, then you have to have the polygamists… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
“... two little patches of tissue essentially control the development of the pattern of bones inside limbs. A strip of tissue at… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Will it be possible to solve these problems? It is certain that nobody has thus far observed the transformation of dead into… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
“Incandescent carbon particles, by the tens of millions, leap free of the log and wave like banners, as flame. Several hundred significantly… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of… — Richard Levins Copy Share Image
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution. — African Spir Copy Share Image
Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to.… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many,… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“I have no reason to believe humans evolved with the capability to understand their reality. That capability was not important to survival.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are… — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
“Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many… — Stephane Simian Copy Share Image
