The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
It depends on the arrangement. It could take 3 hours, it could take 3 days, it could take a week. 'Thrift Shop'… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
“It has already been stated that various parts in the same individual, which are exactly alike during an early embryonic period, become… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young… — Sean Garrett Copy Share Image
“Even before the exact answer was reached, Crick crystallized its fundamental principles in a statement that he called (and is called to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“In areas close to the ZPA, where there is a high concentration of this molecule, cells would respond by making a pinky.… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jennings Bryan, but he fails to… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Plants began the process of land colonization about 450 million years ago, accompanied of necessity by tiny mites and other organisms which… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are at a turning point of revolution species. Evolution has blindly felt its way forward , now, we, the product of… — Kathereine Copy Share Image
“This matter of how best to interpret the term "day" in Genesis 1 is not one over which evangelical believers should quarrel;… — John Christian Wenger Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“These guys weren't just shmucks off the street. They had a reputation for being right about stuff. According to some histories, Berzelius… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps,… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
“Rocks are not static and inert. They are constantly changing, shifting, and rearranging their form and location. They can be melted, deposited,… — Robert R. Coenraads Copy Share Image
I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“The experiments progress slowly," Mendel wrote. "At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
We literally hand over our most private data, our DNA, but we're not just consenting for ourselves, we are consenting for our… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image