“It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.” YearsIdeasBigsProcessBrainMillionsGreaterHappenedTreeParticularEvolutionIntellectualAdvantageYears AgoSpeciesComplexityTree Of LifePrimatesTwigsOld Ideas Author:Steven Pinker
“Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.” IfsThinkingLittlesDoeBigsEyeBabyEvolutionTinyNosesLittle ThingsSurprisingMost AmazingBig Eyes Author:David Attenborough
“Digital also had this evolution that came out of post-production. And George Lucas did it because he wanted to make a big movie with special effects. Sort of the opposite of what you'd think is an indie film. So it's coming from both these angles.” ThinkingBigsWantedFilmSpecialEffectsEvolutionOppositesProductionsPostsDigitalAngleSpecial EffectsBig MovieIndie FilmsPost Production Author:Christopher Kenneally
“I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests, the fields, the flowers. I love the mysteries of evolution and dna and the big bang. I want to know the majesties of the Lord's Creation. I cannot close my eyes to all this. I cannot turn away from science and scientific exploration.” KnowsWorldWantBigsEyeTurnsLordMysterySkyCreationFieldsFlowerEvolutionMountainRiversForestsExplorationValleysDnaBangsMajesty Author:Anne Rice
“The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.” HumansStoriesBigsHappensCultureConsciousnessPlanetsEvolutionBeing TrueBangsFormationAdventHuman ConsciousnessSarsEvolution Of Life Author:Ursula Goodenough
“Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced our evolution from small furry creatures to the big-brained beings we've become today. But bones can't tell us everything.” KnowsHumansHelpingBigsTodayEvolutionCreaturesBonesAncestorHuman EvolutionFurry Author:Ziya Tong
“We have to be in abundance and recognize that we're just a small piece of this big thing that's moving along the biosphere, earth, evolution and consciousness and we'd better humble ourselves and start loving each other.” BigsEarthMovingConsciousnessPiecesEvolutionHumbleAbundanceBig ThingsBiosphereSmall Pieces Author:Peter Buffett
“There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?” SaidBigsAcceptingAtheismEvolutionHigherStandardsAtheistCreatorProofBangsHigher Standards Author:Robert J. Sawyer
“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.” PeopleNeedsFirstsStatesBigsChurchCasesTeacherAtheismEvolutionIgnorantAmendmentsBad AssBangsJerseyViolationFirst AmendmentChurch And StateDinosaursNew JerseyIlliterateFreedom Of ReligionArkNoah's Ark Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.” BigsCertainEvolutionCombinationUnhappinessDisorderOrgansCommitteesRecipesGlandsGod Is Not GreatAdrenal Glands Book:Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior.” NeedsTryingBigsScienceLyingStuffUnderstandingHellTaughtTheoryEvolutionFolksSaviorBangsPits Author:Paul Broun
“I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about life. All I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively the more you read about and study what is known about life and evolution. I want to add one thing more. The more you understand the significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the agnostic position and towards atheism. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.” PeopleWantI CanReasonEnoughFeelingsBigsDifficultSimpleKnownStudyOne ThingAtheismPositionEvolutionAddComplexesPositive AtheismDisappearSignificanceSuspectsAgnosticImprobableBiologistPushed Away Author:Richard Dawkins
“Set aside the many competing explanations of the big bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization - that something transcendent started it all - which has hard-science types... using terms like "miracle."” MadeHardBigsTermTypeEvolutionMiracleRealizationExplanationCosmosCompetingBangsTranscendent Author:Gregg Easterbrook
“The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.” IfsLifeHas BeensMatterEnoughWholeBigsNumbersPlanetsProductsTheoryEvolutionIntelligenceSoupFormationLikelihoodTheory Of EvolutionOrigin Of LifePrimevalBeginning Of LifeEvolution Of Life Author:Fred Hoyle
“Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.” IdeasBigsLyingDesireForceSupportTheoryEvolutionArgumentAtheistObviousDeeperPsychologicalOperationsSuspectsUsualAcademicPhysicistBangsExceedTenacityTheismTheorists Author:Christopher Isham
“A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes, sea shores and deserts, this is where we humans have the privilege to live, the latest, most advanced newcomers in evolution. What an immense, incredible responsibility we have to be a right, positive element in the further evolution of that planet. That is the big question before us in the new century and millennium.” YearsHumansBigsUniverseThreeResponsibilityEnvironmentSeaLandCenturyPlanetsEvolutionMountainElementsOceanPercentRiversIncrediblesPrivilegeBillionsForestsDesertLakesShoreImmenseFloatingSeventiesFertileMillenniumBig QuestionsNewcomersRivers And Lakes Author:Robert Muller
“I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayKindIdeasEndsCharacterBigsMightCultureTechnologyTroubleDangerEvolutionBecomingMassUniqueIllusionResponsibleDepthProductionsRuinsContinuityBeing ResponsibleLaptopsMass ProductionEvolution Of Technology Author:Laura Marling
“The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.” MeanBigsRealityGovernmentEconomyGenerationsEvolutionLaborTablesNotionWork OutGatheringDinosaursNew GenerationBig BusinessBig GovernmentMammalsVarianceAmerican Economy Author:Bruce Babbitt