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Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies.
Ellen Ullman
Life
History
Insects
Seen
Before
Wild
Our
Everything
Earth
Evolution
Sloppy
Except
Within
Came
Fit
Us
Create
Bodies
Dismissed
Realm
Whole
Programmer
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
Ellsworth Huntington
Today
Past
Relation
Earth
Favor
Evolution
Rapid
Poles
Conditions
Than
Form
In The Past
Less
Preserve
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
Emeril Lagasse
Music
Time
Food
Wine
Creation
Philosophy
Those
Evolution
Constantly
Spirit
About
Beating
Head
Like
Sort
Always
Doing
Going
Moving
Keeps
Things
The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.
Emeril Lagasse
Challenges
Cooking
People
Made
Own
Back
Evolution
Weekends
Real
Doing
Where
Cool
Cool People
Cool Thing
Now
Thing
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
Esther Dyson
Government
Rights
Everybody
Liberties
Evolution
Stay
Civil
Civil Liberties
General
Take
Hackers
Well
Became
Began
Frontier
Then
Electronic
Foundation
Away
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.
Evgeny Morozov
History
You
Technology
Sense
Think
Our
Evolution
Has-Been
Would
Would-Be
Obvious
Trace
Without
Always
Been
The History Of
Where
Mankind
Really
What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
Ferid Murad
Me
Simple
Important
Back
Way
Evolution
Compound
Primitive
Most
Does
Important Role
Role
Goes
Cellular
Elements
Suggest
Plays
If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?
Francis Collins
Me
Man
Try
Down
Cares
Right Thing
Evolution
Tell
Would
Exactly
About
Guy
Feel
Drowning
Know
Well
How
Opposite
Very
Walking
Person
The Right Thing
Urge
Your
Who
Who Cares
Swim
Even
Right
Thing
Preserve
Save
I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
Francois Nars
Freedom
Women
Liberty
Think
Evolution
Certain
If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what is unusual. Now, that's not basic chemistry or mineralogy; it's pretty much the cultural stuff and the consequences of evolution.
Frank Drake
You
Chemistry
Consequences
Extraterrestrial
Our
Our Planet
Evolution
Pretty
About
Stuff
Message
Unusual
Cultural
Send
Sending
Want
Us
Much
Planet
Special
Now
Basic
Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.
Frank Peretti
God
Spiritual
You
Key
Challenge
Evolution
Someone
Issue
Avoiding
Whole
Challenging
Level
Basically
The evolution of football has seen a reduction in the space between the teams. It is therefore important for the modern footballer to react and be quicker than in the past, because there is more happening in the restricted space.
Frank Rijkaard
Space
Seen
Important
Past
Evolution
Restricted
More
Football
Footballer
Between
React
Because
Reduction
Quicker
Than
Modern
Happening
In The Past
Therefore
Teams
We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.
Franklin Foer
Beginning
Tools
Evolution
One Of The Things
Arguably
Merging
Since
Makes
Been
Human
Human Beings
Human Evolution
Us
Beings
Things
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka
Spiritual
Nothing
Evolution
Worthless
Perpetual
Revolutionary
Human
Movements
Happened
Former
Decisive
Human Evolution
Declare
Moment
Why
Right
Things
Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel where the strongest versions survive.
Fred Ehrsam
Natural
Evolution
Run
Parallel
Mutations
Strongest
Through
Selection
Allow
Like
Versions
Survive
Just
Where
Experiments
Us
Natural Selection
Organisms
Multiple
Lets
Biological
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
Gary L. Francione
Characteristics
Evolution
Mental
Absent
Proposition
Theory
Wholly
Humans
Inconsistent
The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
George Gaylord Simpson
Confused
Become
Distinction
Evolution
Must
Darwinian
Darwinian Theory
Fact
Opinion
How
Occurred
Theory
Popular
Popular Opinion
Stressed
We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to take on... to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA, and that's inheritable. And we can see evolution in action as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection not at the DNA level. And we can go off into space.
George M. Church
Change
Space
Sense
Action
Our
Evolution
Evolve
Kind
Ability
See
Darwinian
Selection
Take
Environment
Beyond
Ideas
Undergo
Go
Off
Far
Certain
Inherit
Level
Things
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.
George Smoot
Time
Science
People
Before
Universe
Way
Evolution
Given
Aristotle
Since
Contemplated
Era
Very
Origin
Speculation
Recently
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
George Wald
Death
Long
Invention
Before
Late
Way
Corpse
Evolution
Seems
Rather
Fact
Long Way
Go
Been
Authentic
In Fact
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
Germaine Greer
Evolution
Out
Classes
About
Charming
Most
Always
Died
Upper
Them
Things
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
Goldwin Smith
Great
History
Needless
Birth
Say
Evolution
Has-Been
Rather
Given
Investigation
Study
Perhaps
Institutions
Doctrine
How
Method
Been
The History Of
Influence
Which
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
Goldwin Smith
Mind
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Though
Evolution
Must
Bear
Also
Permitted
Itself
May
Cannot
Explain
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.
Greg Graffin
History
Books
Evolution
Studying
Got
Human
Interest
Interested
Fieldwork
Human Evolution
Then
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.
Greg Graffin
Religion
History
You
People
World
Matter
Focus
Our
Evolution
Has-Been
Bad
Some
Disturbing
About
Never
Songs
Written
Almost
Instill
Study
Implications
Look
Been
Trying
May
Artistic
Where
Format
Realities
Who
Interpreted
I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions. And evolution, the evolutionary narrative, helped provide some of that for me.
Greg Graffin
Religion
Me
Creation
Think
Evolution
Evolutionary
Some
Never
Had
Because
Narrative
Traditional
Provide
Lot
Questions
Story
Helped
Raised
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