It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular belief, the gene-centered theory of evolution does not imply that the point of all human striving is to spread… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Those natural designs that survive to reproduce pass on their genes. Those that don’t successfully reproduce disappear; their genes disappear as well.” — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
“Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it begins to simply reward those who reproduce… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their… — Nathaniel Dean Copy Share Image
What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“In 1977, when Fred Sanger had sequenced the genome of the phiX virus, with 5,386 bases of DNA, that number represented the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be… — Theodor Schwann Copy Share Image
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder? — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love. — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image
Only by a process of peaceful evolution can China accomplish its own goals of being a free, prosperous, and strong country. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice — David Landes Copy Share Image
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Evolution and the Big Bang became ideologies to confront, not theories to understand.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student…have now been debunked. — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
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