529 quotes found
“A four-letter alphabet called DNA.”
“You want proof evolution is for real, dont waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They started out as immigrants, stowaways in some ships cargo hold. Only the survivors...”
“As I said earlier it is most surprising that the kingdom of then world should have come under the sway of a species of monkey, and there is reason to suppose that there were other claimants to the ...”
“...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.”
“Love, I have always known, is an evolutionary trait. It is a delicately tuned, intricate, sensitive impulse, but a trait nevertheless, a reaction honed by millions of years of an ever-changing and ...”
“Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.”
“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")”
“If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!”
“In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.”
“The geologic cycle is a bunch of balarky.”
“The geologic column is a bunch of balarky.”
“There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.”
“But why live in these environments at all? What possessed fish to get out of the water or live in the margins? Think of this: virtually every fish swimming in these 375-million-year-old streams was...”
“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”
“...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.”
“It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal e...”
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it ha...”
“have no doubt, this technology will someday, somewhere be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.”
“Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their young in rookeries. The pattern of evolution...”
“The researchers looked deeper into these observations, in hopes of gaining insight into the mechanisms underlying the high evolutionary rate and extraordinary immunologic plasticity of influenza HA...”
