It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Forget the buildings and the monuments. Let the softness of dark come in, all those light-years between stars and planets. Cities were… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the… — Werner Arber Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old]… — John Reader Copy Share Image
“IDers argue that such traits, involving many parts that must cooperate for that trait to function at all, defy Darwinian explanation. Therefore,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric… — Alfred Wegener Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing’s halting problem: you can’t know if the cells will all die off without running the game until they do die… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There is not enough evidence, consistent evidence to make it as fact, and I say that because for theory to become a… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
“Soon after Harris’s HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into "material" and "message," but abstractly, he had captured one of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
“ERV envelope genes possess unique properties that make them suitable for use in forming the placenta: they are fusogenic proteins and they… — Michael G Cordingley Copy Share Image
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA,… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, and by accepting–and embracing–the theory of evolution,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
![“In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at…” quote by John Reader](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f1/john-reader-69848_andrew_in-a-manner-which-matches-the-fortuity-i_2220459.jpg)
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![“It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the…” quote by Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32b/douglas-adams-122_centre_it-takes-a-long-time-before-we-really-ge_1508473.jpg)
