Evolution Quotes · Page 40

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.”

— Richard Dawkins

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

— Aldo Leopold

“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.”

— Richard W. Wrangham

“Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.”

— Dan Brown

“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

— Noam Chomsky

Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

— Eric Lander

“Explaining evolution to a fundamentalist Christian is like trying to explain Calculus to someone with absolutely no grasp of Maths.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight…

— Bertrand Meyer

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in…

— Joan D. Vinge

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that…

— Steven Pinker

I do a lot of work with NASA and am involved in research projects studying planetary evolution, Earth-like planets, and potential conditions…

— David Grinspoon

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

— Richard Dawkins

There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One is a content-first strategy because you need…

— Stephanie McMahon

“Live simply so that others may simply live" was marvelously observed by St. Elizabeth Seton . If this simple truth could only…

— Adam Kovacevic

It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it…

— Patricia Churchland

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding…

— Gary Zukav

Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of…

— Kent Hovind

You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,…

— Charles Kingsley

“here’s a highly simplified version of the next chapter’s focus on genes: (a) each gene specifies the production of a specific type…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted,…

— Thomas Huxley

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted…

— E. O. Wilson

“Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.”

— TemitOpe Ibrahim

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

— Katha Pollitt

There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

— Bruce R. McConkie

Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.

— Frankie Boyle

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

— Henry Cavill

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

— John Marburger

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

— Bill Gates

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

— George Gaylord Simpson

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

— Alexander McQueen

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

— Anne Wojcicki

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

— Herbert Spencer

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

— Robin Ince

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

— Hal Borland