The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility; the possibility of one day being able to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you… — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
“The great value of the Darwinian evolutionary paradigm is the way it helps us understand how what once was "noise" (e.g., unselected-uncorrelated… — Terrence Deacon Copy Share Image
“If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters… — Abe Kōbō Copy Share Image
“Dr. Harrison,” Said Dr. Miller. “To claim the right to operate genetic changes in living creatures supposes the possession of the wisdom… — Abdelouahab Hammoudi Copy Share Image
As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan.… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
“His explanation takes two minutes exactly. The shale lies a mile underground, has lain there since before there was a Pennsylvania, before… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have… — James Croll Copy Share Image
“The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But don’t worry girls,… — Ben Mitchell Copy Share Image
Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution i.e., a species becoming a new species accomplishing a… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
“My body lies within the strings and myths of reality with a purpose of evolution and adapted by gravity but for my… — Ahmed Aziz Ahmed Copy Share Image
You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“Nowadays it seemed like half the technical data on the planet were being stored genetically. Try sequencing a lung fluke and it… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Far from feeling dwarfed by the vast reaches and energy of the cosmos, what we really learn is that we are the… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
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