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The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of… — Linus Pauling
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found… — Ernst Mayr
[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes… — J I Packer
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced.… — Aristotle
While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether… — Theobald Smith
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it. — John Charles Polanyi
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to… — Richard Dawkins
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state… — George Washington
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.… — Richard Dawkins
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new… — Richard Dawkins
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.… — Christopher Hitchens
There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god,… — Dan Barker
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."… — Bertrand Russell
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is… — George Will
When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient… — Peter Stone
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned… — Paul Davies
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… — Charles Darwin
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at… — Billy Graham
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand… — Isaac Asimov
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic… — Fred Hoyle
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather… — Paul Davies

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