Evolution Quotes · Page 24

Years ago I began to realize that any genome can make any other, practically.

— Barbara McClintock 1980

“Evolution is surely most deterministic for those still unaware of it”

— Richard D. Alexander

Synthetic biology will be the future of manufacturing, engineering and medicine.

— Bryan Johnson

“universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?”

— Idries Shah

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

— Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack…

— Ronald Fisher

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes,…

— Edward Albee

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a…

— Luther Burbank

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown…

— Carl Linnaeus

If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this…

— Frank Herbert

The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an…

— Pablo Picasso

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

— Herbie Hancock

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this…

— Charles Darwin

“Horvitz and his colleagues discovered several genes that coded for the effectors of cell death in nematodes—the death genes. Their findings were…

— Nick Lane

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary…

— Michael Crichton

“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name…

— Lee Spetner

“Like the master score of a bewitchingly complex symphonic work, the genome contains the instructions for the development and maintenance of organisms.…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry…

— Alan J. Heeger

“If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the…

— Henry Lipson

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

The evolutionists worship atheism. I mean, that's their religion.

— Pat Robertson

“Alpha et Omega concurrunt in idem locus" "Alpha and Omega meet at the same locus”

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“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

— Robert Charles Wilson

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

— William A. Dembski

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

— Gregory Stock

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of,…

— Charlie Kaufman

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

— Gary A. Klein

“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

— Martin Luther

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

— Konrad Lorenz

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

— John Polkinghorne