The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
When we talk about the rise of tribalism, I think the evolution of media in the '90s and beyond is a huge… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of. — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“This unique species, known by scientists as Homo floresiensis, reached a maximum height of only one metre and weighed no more than… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game… — David Buss Copy Share Image
Unlike abortion nobody gets hurt when gays marry but it does have deep implications for what kind of society we want to… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You're my brother." "Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The surname of an atheist is compound unfortunate plus being, therefore unfortunate-beings, making all atheists unfortunate beings because human beings are created… — S. E. Entsua-Mensah Copy Share Image
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell.… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains. — Dean Falk Copy Share Image
The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You" — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
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