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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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Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation…
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
— David Seabury
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Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of…
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Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life,…
— Arthur Compton
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Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in…
— Dara O Briain
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Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to…
— Etienne Gilson
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This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence.
— Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a…
— Ernst Mayr
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification…
— Louis Pasteur
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
— Louis Pasteur
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