The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely… — Errol White Copy Share Image
“My view is that diversity is the breath of life, and we must not abandon that for any single form which happens… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Instead of explaining everything by the supposed supremacy of a law of evolution, which compels collective phenomena to reproduce and repeat themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to… — Tamzin Merchant Copy Share Image
“Geologists think the mountains were formed by several distinct tectonic events over the course of 500 million years, a span of time… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“No cataclysmic change since 1984--Energy-exchange system now about 4.5 billion years old--Plant life itself is about four billion years old--24 hour days… — Lou Voorhees Copy Share Image
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I… — Jerome Lejeune Copy Share Image
“Millions of years of evolution have designed us to live and think as community members. Within a mere two centuries we have… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances… — Robert Tisserand Copy Share Image
It's really easy, in a band, to overstate - you feel like everything you do is different than the past. I think… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“Mitochondria, as we have seen, are only passed on in the egg, so all 13 mitochondrial genes come from our mothers. If… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Those who love others grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high toleration and acceptance of others are… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only evolutionary possibility on… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
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“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
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Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
“It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that throughout evolutionary history, the eye evolved… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
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