Aristotle Quotes

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

From the point of view of evolution, trying to consciously shape the the how your children will turn out is both futile and self-defeating.

I should prefer the name Pioneer Foundation. While in itself this is a colorless term, it would be perfectly appropriate if this foundation should have for its purpose the maintenance of the pioneer traditions and the perpetuation of pioneer family-stocks and the hereditary qualities—physical, mental and spiritual—of the pioneer families of America.

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.

It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.

I come from amazing DNA, I watched my mom fight and win against breast cancer.

I take the sporting genes from my dad.

We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.

There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true. Darwin didn't know the mechanism of heredity, but you don't have to. You just need to know the fact of it.

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.

The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In the end, however, the species is temporary; it has no "eternal life." After existing for a certain period, it either dies or is converted by modification into other forms.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to dominate a small breeding group.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.