For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available to proteins. — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
“Your partner’s secret love affair may be caused by the natural necessity of life to find fuller and fuller expression. There’s a… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“DNA Medicine Institute, of Cambridge, is one of the 10 top teams building a Trekkie “tricorder’’ device as part of the $10… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The Untheory of Evolution, and Other Scientific Studies Including Hunting, Fishing, and Sex" by William C. Berdine needs to be available to… — William C. Berdine Copy Share Image
“correlation and causation. It’s one thing to be linked to a disease; it’s quite another to cause a disease, which implies a… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
“In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of… — Swami Abhedananda Copy Share Image
If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We… — Max More Copy Share Image
In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the… — Dorothy Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
My dad was Republican his whole life until he turned 65 and became like a born-again Democrat. And now he's a progressive,… — Jen Psaki Copy Share Image
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I want to be a member of the team that helps in any way possible for the evolution of people's souls. Because… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is… — Dannion Brinkley Copy Share Image
Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“It is not the strongest animal that survives, nor the fastest, but the one most adaptable to change. —Leon C. Megginson, paraphrasing… — Ben Falk Copy Share Image
People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
“What is more of a symbol of eternal growth and change than the Goddess? The eternal spiral of creation. Coiled like a… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
Ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
It has been truthfully said that organic evolution is Satan's chief weapon in this dispensation in his attempt to destroy the divine… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
