“At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from… — Philip Nelson Copy Share Image
“The Neanderthals were a proto-species, an embryonic light that flickered in evolutionary time, but was not strong enough to stand across epochs.” — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self esteem, then get used to the idea that you are… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God’s Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness.… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are… — Granville Penn Copy Share Image
Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place,"… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
“This is the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology: a need shaped in the wild continues to be felt subjectively even if it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all,… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I find the concept of intelligent design rather dishonest. One should openly stand up for the existence of Allah, should sincerely stand… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather.… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“In the discussion, Gulland was asked about the possibility that a DNA molecule might be a helix, held together by the presence… — Matthew Cobb Copy Share Image
God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
You are the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
