Evolution Quotes · Page 36

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

— Patricia Cornwell

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

— William Jennings Bryan

If women were created from ribs then why do they taste like fish?

— Rock Cowles

You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

— Aaron Levie

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

— Anonymous

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

— Bill Gates

I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

— Richard Dawkins

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition…

— Thorstein Veblen

Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the…

— Kent Hovind

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand…

— Bob Waterston

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

— Trofim Lysenko

If we could really measure our brain's activity, it would be a historical turning point for Homo sapiens, making radical human cognitive…

— Bryan Johnson

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one…

— Ernst Mayr

I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their…

— Noel Wells

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as…

— Richard Dawkins

Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“There is strong geological evidence that the period from 380 million to 365 million years ago is the critical time. The younger…

— Neil Shubin

“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to…

— Edward O. Wilson

More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in…

— Fei-Fei Li

“Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to…

— Amadeus William Grabau

International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case,…

— Robert Kagan

“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. . .…

— Richard Dawkins

It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it…

— Peter Medawar

“No wonder these people don’t believe in evolution. It obviously hasn’t worked in their favor.”

— Jeri Smith-Ready

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

— David M. Raup

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

— Daniel Nathans

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

— M. Scott Peck

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

— Germaine Greer

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

— Daniel Dennett

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

— Carl Sagan

A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.

— Alain Ducasse

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

— Marc Gafni

It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.

— Marcellin Boule

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

— Idries Shah

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

— Karl Pilkington

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

— Naomi Wolf

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

— Bertrand Russell