Evolution Quotes · Page 43

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very…

— Kirk Cameron

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

— Francis Collins

“Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.”

— Idries Shah

Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

— Faith Hill

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

— George W. Bush

“Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?”

— Bill Watterson

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

— Daniel Levitin

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to…

— Martin Luther

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges,…

— Anonymous

“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.”

— Dimitris Xygalatas

I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not…

— Hilary Kornblith

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action…

— Ernst Haeckel

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which…

— Richard Dawkins

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are…

— Gerry Mulligan

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and…

— Tom DeLay

“In most people's minds, fossils and Evolution go hand in hand. In reality, fossils are a great embarrassment to Evolutionary theory and…

— Gary Parker

There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher…

— Noam Chomsky

The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of…

— Cesar Milstein

“In deriving a body from the water type I intend to express that to this body, considered as an oxide, there corresponds…

— Charles Gerhardt

“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opposed to mentioning…

— Jonathan Wells

Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our…

— E. O. Wilson

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is…

— Neil Gaiman

“The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

— Daniel Levitin

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

— James Lovelock

“Evolution is antifragile! While individuals in the population are fragile, the population as a whole is antifragile.”

— Rich Jolly

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

— Henry Adams

“At least half of the genes in the human genome are duplicates.”

— Anonymous

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

— Peter R. Grant

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

— Bela Bartok

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

— Steven Pinker

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.”

— Joey Lawsin

“cell-specific lectin Ulex europaeus agglutinin as observed by fluorescence microscopy (Fig.1)”

— Anonymous

Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having.

— Richard Bandler

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

— Vikas Khanna

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

— Jacques Monod