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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Evolution

"Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Evolution

"Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?"

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Evolution

"Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
Evolution

"I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change."

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
Evolution

"There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it."

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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
Evolution

"The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Evolution

"God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for He cherishes all creatures. He is not only the Creator, but He is also the Sustainer and Nourisher."

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