We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I've done DNA tests and I've got two per cent Neanderthal DNA - most people have. If your ancestry is northern hemisphere,… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
Im not advocating social Darwinism, I am witnessing actual Darwinism. If you are in a camp with a bunch of campers, and… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“Each plant and animal is exquisitely made; should not a supremely competent Designer have been able to make the intended variety from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
'Lucha Underground' is a combination of new psychology, new moves, and a new take on wrestling: an evolution of wrestling. In my… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
My whole interest is, how do you use evolution as an innovation engine? How does evolution solve new problems that life faces?… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't… — Irven DeVore Copy Share Image
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but thevery plants are at war… The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In short, we evolved, like other animals, to win the reproduction game. That contest has a single aim, to leave as many… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“Dawkins talked about chance, but he didn’t calculate the chance of anything. Nor did he cite anyone who did. He just assumed… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Evolution doesn't give a damn about your happiness, but will use the promise of happiness (using dopamine rushes) to keep you hunting,… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
When I came out in '95, even though it was part of the storyline, I was known as the next evolution of… — Big Show Copy Share Image
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Meditation is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters you. This power transmogrifies your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our WWE Universe is such a huge part of all the positive changes happening for the Women's Evolution because they spoke up,… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another. — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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