What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill… — Peyton J Glenn Copy Share Image
The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“With DNA as with words, the sequence carries the meaning. Dissolve DNA into its constituent bases, and it turns into a primordial… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Unlike the traditionally accepted theories of evolution and natural selection, Black’s view stressed that mutations are not accidents; instead, they are the… — E.B. Hudspeth Copy Share Image
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It has been pointed out by Boltzmann that the fundamental object of contention in the life-struggle, in the evolution of the organic… — Nick Gogerty Copy Share Image
“Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, was to simulate the conditions on Earth in primordial times, three or four billion years ago, when… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally the new immunology was… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a good example of that modern intelligence which, if it destroys anything, destroys itself. Evolution is either an innocent scientific… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Many a “learned” man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him’ (Hadrat Ahmed ibn… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate! — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“school you may have learned the basic components of a cell: the nucleus that contains genetic material, the energy-producing mitochondria, the protective… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“...agriculture and its attending social changes have likely increased selection for traits such as self-control, lower time discounting, and tolerance for routine… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
“Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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