Quotes about "Science & Discovery"

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. ”

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge. ”

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. ”

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ”

Natural selection is anything but random. ”

Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy. ”

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything. ”

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next. ”

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music. ”

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution. ”