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(n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since there is no evidence for species changes between the simplest f...
Alan H. Linton
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biology, darwin, darwinism, evolution, macro evolution, macroevolution, neo darwinism, science
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called 'educated classes' are to thi...
Ernst Haeckel
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anthropogeny, astonishing, biology, education, evolution, fact, history, ignorance, incontestable, remarkable
An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand mil...
Richard E. Leakey
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accident, biology, earth, evolution, fossil record, fossils, history, homo sapiens, mortality, science
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the ori...
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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atmosphere, biology, change, earth, hydrogeology, life, meteorology, naturalism, physics, science
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more lan...
Thomas Henry Huxley
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biology, business, charles darwin, darwin, goal, history, illimitable, inexplicability, infinite, intellectual
For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis. This quasi-religious function of the theo...
James A. Shapiro
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biology, darwin, darwinism, evolution, macro evolution, macroevolution, neo darwinism, science