Ayala Quotes & Sayings

If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing. — Ayala Malakh-Pines

It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation. — Francisco J. Ayala

These holes are our sins. And the waves are God's love, washing away our sins. — Rachelle Ayala

Maybe He's already given you a miracle. You just can't see it. — Rachelle Ayala

A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas — Francisco J. Ayala

In order to burn out, a person needs to have been on fire at one time. — Ayala Pines

God does not make mistakes. What He says He will do, He will. — Rachelle Ayala

Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read. — Francisco J. Ayala

When your dreams turn into a nightmare, it's time to wake up. — Rachelle Ayala

You and I
We do not talk anymore
And all our asterisks
Are turning
Into flowers. — Tita Lacambra-Ayala

You are truly the most expensive girl in all God's creation. And the most precious. — Rachelle Ayala

Lamentations 3:26 - It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. — Rachelle Ayala

Peace for Israel," he said.
"Is that possible?" I drew closer.
"Yes, if we have peace with God first. — Rachelle Ayala

Jealousy is indeed the shadow of love. — Ayala Malakh-Pines

Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn. — Ayala Malakh-Pines

of our incident board.' Ayala tentatively stood and approached the whiteboard, which was ominously empty. 'What am I writing?' 'Start with our three victims — Daniel Campbell

A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in principle, falsified by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm of science. — Francisco J. Ayala

Winning the Origins Lottery Nontheistic models adhere to a central premise that humans arose by strictly natural unguided steps from a bacterial life-form that sprang into being 3.8 billion years ago. Famed evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala, an advocate for the hypothesis that natural selection and mutations can efficiently generate distinctly different species, nevertheless calculated the probability that humans (or a similarly intelligent species) arose from single-celled organisms as a possibility so small (10-1,000,000) that it might as well be zero (roughly equivalent to the likelihood of winning the California lottery 150,000 consecutive times with the purchase of just one ticket each time).2 He and other evolutionary biologists agree that natural selection and mutations could have yielded any of a virtually infinite number of other outcomes. Astrophysicists Brandon Carter, John Barrow, and Frank Tipler produced an even smaller probability. — Hugh Ross

Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance to one or more pesticides has been reported in at least 225 species of insects and other arthropods. The genetic variants required for resistance to the most diverse kinds of pesticides were apparently present in every one of the populations exposed to these man-made compounds. — Francisco J. Ayala