Biology Quote by Steven E. Landsburg Download Open image ““...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....”” — Steven E. Landsburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Evolution
“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it!” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact...That didn't have to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution is surely most deterministic for those still unaware of it” — Richard D. Alexander Copy Share Image
“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We are not saying that Evolution can't exist, only that it is guided by His Noodly Appendage.” — Bobby Henderson Copy Share Image
“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a terror of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his study of the evolution of… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“No wonder these people don’t believe in evolution. It obviously hasn’t worked in their favor.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“The governing principle is precisely the same one that predicts behavior at the gas pump. When the price of gasoline is low, people choose… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Of course, ideas can always be misleading—but then so can numbers. Still, we advance by learning new ways to think, even if those ways… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Logic matters. It leads us from simple ideas to surprising conclusions.” — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“A few lines of reasoning can change the way we see the world.” — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Among college students, economics and philosophy majors have similar current incomes, but it’s the economics students who drive cars, because it’s the economics students… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“When I find a pair of pants I like, I buy a lot of them. Really a lot. Perhaps there’s something genetic here; I… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Why am I permitted to apply racial criteria when I select a spouse but not when I select a personal assistant?” — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“A low current stock price forecasts a low future price. If today’s price is low, there is a good reason to buy more (it’s… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.” — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“If it's okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn't we enrich ourselves by invading peaceful countries… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image