By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. Because of the fact that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The Tae-Bo guy has a good body on him. I believe in evolution as far as lifting and training and building muscle.… — Roman Reigns Copy Share Image
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Although we fully understand the genetic code-i.e., how the information in a single gene is used to build a protein-we comprehend virtually… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Horvitz and his colleagues discovered several genes that coded for the effectors of cell death in nematodes—the death genes. Their findings were… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
“Virtually all the authors of popular books on the subject assert that ADD is a heritable genetic disorder. With some notable exceptions,… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry… — Alan J. Heeger Copy Share Image
“Like the master score of a bewitchingly complex symphonic work, the genome contains the instructions for the development and maintenance of organisms.… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I try to outline. I'm a lazy outliner. I will put the points down of each chapter or series of chapters, but… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Of course, the UK is a significant economy that makes up a quarter of American exports to the EU, more than 50… — Michael Froman Copy Share Image
To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
“If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Were genuine aliens to find us… the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“When the underlying dream changes, when we successfully remove the blinders of the old cosmological conditioning, we will be able to apply… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
“The fact is that there are two traditions of explanation that march side by side in the ascent of man. One is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Illumina’s soup-to-nuts strategy—of providing fundamental sequencing technologies as well as services that mine genomic insights—appears to be a winner as genomic information… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance…Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. . .… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Dawkins recognizes the power irreducible complexity has to falsify naturalistic explanations (like any combination of chance, natural law, or natural selection). Even… — J. Warner Wallace Copy Share Image
When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image