1. Charles Darwin
Evolving life
Wikipedia, "On the origin of species" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_The_Origin_of_Species (accessed April 28th, 2010)
"Finally, it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cucko ejecting its foster-brothers,ants making slaves, the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, not as especially endowed or created instincts but as small consequences of one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings..."
2. Stephen Hawking
Evolving universe
Stephan Hawking, "The Quantum State of the Universe," Nuclear Physics (1984)
"Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete freedom to start the universe off any way it wanted. That may be so, but it could also have made it evolve in a completely arbitaray and random manner. Yet all the eviddence is that it evolves in a regular way according to certain laws. It would therefore seem reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the boundary conditions."
3. Nicole Kuepper
Evolving technology
Youtube, "Solar star: Nicole Kuepper"
www.youtube.com/watch?v+W8eNeReo-hw
"In science, it's really exciting when new technologies start getting to the stage where you can use them"
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