Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I think. I think sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The home world exercises its siren call over us all. No matter how far we wander, or how long we are gone,… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
I think that there's a sense of self-reliance that exists in skateboarding that kids can take to their daily lives. I think… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
“For more than three thousand million years, DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world. But it does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My work is nice, natural, it's never "been there done that," my work remains very interesting without losing my soul - because… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“The chemicals along a strand of DNA are arranged so that the molecule can make a copy of itself. Things being the… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
“We can now expose perhaps the most common misunderstanding of Darwinism: the idea that Darwin showed that evolution by natural selection is… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
Now, as the world's scientists focus with increasing intensity on transforming the genetic codes of every living creature into information that can… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“Because that DNA is the whole reason we exist, still preserved long after most of humanity ascended into super-intelligent human-robot hybrids. Humans… — Samuel Peralta Copy Share Image
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
“of now, the main difference has been found in the HAR1 (human accelerated region 1), a segment of a recently discovered RNA… — D.F. Swaab Copy Share Image
“Everything a person is and everything he knows resides in the tangled thicket of his intertwined neurons. These fateful, tiny bridges number… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative… — William James Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I have the best of both worlds. I have all the accolades that come with something like that video, but I don't… — Judson Laipply Copy Share Image
Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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