There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This exciting new field of epigenetics--meaning literally "around" the gene--allows us to see how environmental factors alter our gene expression in a… — Woodson Merrell Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“An accurate view of evolution, in all its multifaceted and anarchic glory... We are all evolved creatures who share a common way… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from… — Gerald A. Kerkut Copy Share Image
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“The key to tooth development is that an interaction between these two layers of tissue, an outer sheet of cells and an… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
“It is often felt that Darwin, more than anyone, banished “meaning” from the world—in the sense of any overall divine meaning or… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile… — Scott F. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Our prototypical behavior has occurred. How was it influenced by events when the egg and sperm that formed that person joined, creating… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“why have humans managed to rise up and dominate the planet? Because in the last 20,000 years, we are the only species… — GBF Summary Copy Share Image
Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet.… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“The debate of nature versus nurture is an old one. But it is off the mark. There is no nature versus nurture.… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“You want proof evolution is for real, don’t waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago… — David Javerbaum Copy Share Image
