If belief in evolution is a requirement to be a real scientist, it’s interesting to consider a quote from Dr. Marc Kirschner,… — Marc Kirschner Copy Share Image
If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We must stand on the side of goodness, compassion and conscience, not to keep the processes in Nature functioning, but because if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“The genes supply the motivation for warfare, [E. O.] Wilson is saying, in humans as they do in chimps, but people, blessed… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image