We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . .… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States'… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing… — Arlene Dahl Copy Share Image
The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the… — Terry Eastland Copy Share Image
Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
