Evolution Quotes · Page 25

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

— Seth Lloyd

“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”

— Idries Shah

It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be…

— Richard Dawkins

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

— Patty Duke

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of…

— Richard Dawkins

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

— Richard Dawkins

Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

— Peter R. Grant

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

— Richard Dawkins

In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists…

— Ellen Goodman

“Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's…

— Steve Merrick

Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes…

— Rudolf Virchow

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence…

— Francis Crick

“According to the fossil record, Neanderthals appeared between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and existed until about 30,000 years ago. Throughout their…

— Svante Pääbo

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not…

— Carl Sagan

“Following our dreams and giving authority to the imaginal being within us to steward our lives may be just the action required…

— Amy McTear

You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you…

— Mayim Bialik

I try to outline. I'm a lazy outliner. I will put the points down of each chapter or series of chapters, but…

— Steve Toltz

Of course, the UK is a significant economy that makes up a quarter of American exports to the EU, more than 50…

— Michael Froman

You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our…

— Steven Weinberg

“When the underlying dream changes, when we successfully remove the blinders of the old cosmological conditioning, we will be able to apply…

— Amy McTear

“The fact is that there are two traditions of explanation that march side by side in the ascent of man. One is…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Were genuine aliens to find us… the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the…

— Thomm Quackenbush

I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things,…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up…

— Lawrence Millman

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.

— Ann Coulter

I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

— Errol White

Why is it easier for some people to believe their ancestors were a clump of mud and a cannibalized body part, than…

— Rock Cowles

“Evolution doesn’t really have a destination. It’s just dicking around with possibilities.”

— Christopher Moore

“Self study leads to improvisation and improvisation leads to evolution.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

— Jared Diamond

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

— Anonymous

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

— Bela Fleck

“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change.

— Charles Darwin

“Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.”

— Loren Eiseley

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

— Steven Johnson

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

— Jack Welch

First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.

— E. Lee Spence

With the evolution of basketball there's always going to be new types of players and moves.

— Aaron Gordon