Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
“By the end of this decade, permutations and combinations of genetic variants will be used to predict variations in human phenotype, illness,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Every result converged on the same conclusion: the transforming principle was composed of DNA. The discussion section of the article outlined the… — Matthew Cobb Copy Share Image
The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Hamilton puzzled over the apparently altruistic self-sacrifice of worker bees in forsaking the opportunity to breed in favor of caring for the… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
In entertainment, the technology began giving us greater choice and easier switching before almost any other area. The studios became much more… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I believe that Fairport, in all its incarnations, has almost single-handedly been responsible for and has written the book on the history… — Iain Matthews Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the… — Tiffany Shlain Copy Share Image
“Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain… — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Nothing defined the latter half of England's Victorian age more than the way in which Darwin's claims shook the collective faith of… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
“Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm Copy Share Image
A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
“in Solution Most chemical reactions that occur on the earth’s surface, whether in living organisms or among inorganic substances, take place in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the late 1970s, scientists working on gene-silencing discovered that the attachment of a small molecule-a methyl group-to DNA was correlated with… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
“God did not create evolution--evolution created God. The evolution of religion is as follows: animism--polytheism--monotheism--agnosticism--atheism. As history progresses, people worship fewer and… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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