No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Have they identified the gene that makes people pretend they're happy and that their life isn't a sham to compensate for broken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
“By asking why, by seeking meaning (not in any final sense, but in the immediate sense of use or purpose), Darwin found… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“You’ve probably heard a good deal about Neanderthal [Nee-AND-er-tall] people or almost-people. Sometime around 500,000 years ago, the ancestors of Neanderthals and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
There is something outrageous about such a huge body of evidence being put together, then being confirmed in all kinds of other… — Matthew Chapman Copy Share Image
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.” — Self Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct. — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“One has to understand the dynamics of the species and habitat in question, and most armchair ethicists haven’t the faintest clue.” — John Durant Copy Share Image
Gigabit LTE will be an important technology evolution because that puts demands on the rest of the network to basically be -… — Borje Ekholm Copy Share Image
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I did because it… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“Think about it... The Republicans have gone from Abraham Lincoln to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump. No wonder they don't believe in… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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