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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be…
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist…
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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual…
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as…
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Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.
— Judi Bari
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"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water…
— Jonathon Porritt
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We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we…
— River Phoenix
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I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has…
— Billy Graham
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We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
— Andrew Simms
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If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.
— Victor Papanek
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The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that…
— Van Jones
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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we…
— Marvin Harris
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I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick.…
— William McDonough
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Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically…
— William McDonough
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I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible…
— Judi Bari
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