“Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.” WellsHas BeensBookDoneSeemsCommunityEvolutionStandardsEvidenceClaimsDecadesContraryDeceptionDiscussionSpiteExposedIconsEducatorTextbooksExaggeratedGreat Service Author:Dean H. Kenyon
“If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.” IfsHumansHas BeensImportantHardFightingFunEvolutionSurvivalDestructionBeing TruePrimitiveHuntsPreyRivalsSurvival Of The Fittest Book:The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2 Source: The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2
“Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.” Has BeensDoneSeemsTodayMovingPathEvolutionWitMediumsComicCartoonSophisticationCartoonistComic Strips Author:Bill Watterson
“The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.” Has BeensArtMadeDifferentStepsStylePaintingEvolutionIdealsDifferent Styles Author:Pablo Picasso
“For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.” LongHas BeensLawCausesMy OwnEvolutionEternalConstitutionAssociationLatentUnchangeablePredestined Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus
“The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.” IfsMindHas BeensEndsSchoolPurposeForceStudentsEvolutionStrategyAccomplish Author:Kenneth R. Miller
“The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.” Has BeensLastsEvolutionInternetConsequenceInnovationDecadesAccess Author:Vinton Cerf
“We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.” Has BeensStarsSidesEvolutionFollowingTennisArrivalsPositive ChangeVery Positive Author:Stephane Simian
“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.” Has BeensIdeasStatesActionFormScienceCertainParentAnimalExistenceOpinionForeverGenerationsEvolutionHabitPhilosopherProductionsThis LifeAcquireImmortalSentimentsContinuingAfter DeathIngeniousPropensity Author:Erasmus Darwin
“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.” MayHas BeensBookLastsCertainForceNaturalHalfAcceptingEnvironmentImagineInfluenceExampleDesignMaterialsTheoryEvolutionCampaignsLocalsDozenSelectionMisunderstandingAdaptationVariationNatural SelectionArthurRejectingRaw MaterialsConductingDarwinismGood DesignCapricious Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.” MenGivingHas BeensMadeI CanFactsTogetherRememberReligiousVirtueHappenedTeachingStupidExampleEvolutionAuthorityIntelligentPraiseEducatedMinistersIllegalOne WordIdentificationOwingEducated ManReligious Education Book:Education and the Social Order Source: Education and the Social Order
“Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.” IfsWorldHumansHas BeensDifferentViewsProgressEvolutionJudgmentPoint Of ViewOnenessOur TimeInternalsMasteryDistinguishedForgetfulnessHuman Evolution Author:R. D. Laing
“If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.” IfsThinkingHas BeensWould BeTechnologyMankindEvolutionObviousCyborg Author:Evgeny Morozov