Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature... — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life… Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There's enough evidence that variation in sexual orientation is more a function of genes than of environment and for that reason alone,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the… — Alan Feduccia Copy Share Image
We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The idea of antifragility, for which evolution is the most important example, gives us tremendous guidance: o Seek out low-cost options in… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact...That didn't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician… — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
“Depression may seem completely useless. Even apart from the risk of suicide, sitting all day morosely staring at the wall can't get… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“We need to move beyond Darwinian Theory, which stresses the importance of individuals, to one that stresses the importance of the community.… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
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