When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern… — Richard Goldschmidt Copy Share Image
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't… — Theodore Holmes Bullock Copy Share Image
These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“While we advance exponentially in technological capability, our spiritual or 'biological technology,' our maturity as a species, is still two or three… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“These guys weren't just shmucks off the street. They had a reputation for being right about stuff. According to some histories, Berzelius… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are in an interesting place in the evolution in our community in the people want to be indistinguishable from heterosexuals. I… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Anything new is met with suspicion and has been throughout the entire history of time, but it's just evolution once you get… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Did you know? There are three major milestones in human evolution. One, the discovery of fire; two, the invention of the wheel;… — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
