People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“Finally, only thirty or forty million years before, our earliest ancestors had crawled out of the primeval slime; and then, no doubt,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the… — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“He saw that there is a spectrum of variation between species that comes into being slowly, tiny change by tiny change. He… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Lest anyone dispute that the Bible is not the inspired Word of God but rather the direct and dictated Word of God,… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Gaia spoke in a complex language of predator and prey, of growth and dormancy, of birth and migration, of seasonal change, of… — Linda Nagata Copy Share Image
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
“In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so… — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
