“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate to be given the opportunities I've been given, and it's been awesome. You know I'm really looking forward… — Alexa Bliss Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Mitochondria are strange organelles in the sense that they have their own DNA and ribosomes.Therefore, mitochondria are able to make some of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters. — Severo Ochoa Copy Share Image
“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more.… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Our bones are more gracile than those of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors, our personalities less aggressive, our societies more trusting and cohesive.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple… — Greg Zeschuk Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile,… — William Sims Copy Share Image
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often,… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place… — David Hillis Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“It was said that similar tribes lived farther to the west of Pariha. One of their biggest and most ancient settlements was… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“ancestor. In fact, this clock tells us that all seven billion people alive today can trace their maternal lineage to one woman… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it.… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. They were… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and… — Craig Mello Copy Share Image
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin,… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The length of all DNA in your body's cells is 74 billion kilometers (or 193,000 times the distance from the earth to the moon).” — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
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