Evolution Quotes · Page 46

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

“the average Neanderthal cranial capacity was greater than that of modern humans.”

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

I believe that From Software has to create new things. There will be new types of games coming from us, and 'Dark…

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

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

— Amy McTear

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer…

— Kenneth R. Miller

Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution's flight plan.

— Kyle Hill

“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Epigenetics, Waddington wrote, concerns "the interaction of genes with their environment (...) that brings their phenotype into being.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so…

— George Gaylord Simpson

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among…

— Walter Gilbert

It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change…

— Christopher McDowell

“The brain homology hypothesis entails losses across the board, with more than 75 percent of existing animal phyla having quite literally lost…

— Russell Powell

Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious…

— Steven Weinberg

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of…

— Charles Darwin

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate…

— John Ruskin

The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many…

— Elliott Sober

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

— Isaac Asimov

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

— Michael Jordan

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it…

— Anonymous

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

— Matt Ridley

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

— Manolo Blahnik

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

— Phillip E. Johnson

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

— Richard Dawkins

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

— Frederick Lenz

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

— Nancy Pearcey

“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”

— Idries Shah

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

— Hideo Kojima

“Wanna know the truth about yourself and this universe? Just learn to understand your DNA code then you'll see.”

— Toba Beta

Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.

— Frances Arnold

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always…

— Idries Shah

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

— Robert Casey