Biology Quote by John Polkinghorne

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials…

— John Polkinghorne

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years…

— Ilya Prigogine

The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around. Nonetheless, the…

— Seth Shostak

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours…

— Stephen Hawking

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology…

— Kenneth R. Miller

Creation did not take millions of years. We can hardly be justified in trying to harmonize the days of creation with the extended periods…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation…

— George Wald

There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion…

— George Gamow

“It is perhaps worth noticing that we have arrived 'on the scene' at a fairly early date. By this I mean that the time…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam

“universe is almost incompatible with life—or at least what we understand as necessary for life: Even if every star in a hundred billion galaxies…

— Carl Sagan