Evolution Quotes · Page 48

“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

“Genes aren't everything," Amar says. "People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That's what matters.”

— Veronica Roth

Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.

— Robert Warren

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

— Ken Liu

“If molecular biology was about attention to detail and particularity, bioinformatics is about generality and totality.”

— Anonymous

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our…

— Joan D. Vinge

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution…

— Donella Meadows

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view…

— Stephen Hawking

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological…

— Asa Gray

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

— Matt Ridley

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the…

— Trevor Moore

“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.”

— Henry Gee

Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and…

— Carl Woese

“... Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers,…

— Haruki Murakami

“Consider statements like ‘Evolution disproves God’ and ‘The universe created itself’ or ‘nothing created something’- at least two of those statements plainly…

— Bō Jinn

“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then…

— Peter Watts

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring…

— Roy Chapman Andrews

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is…

— A. A. Gill

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a…

— Bruce Schneier

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

— Jeremy Rifkin

Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or…

— Hank Hanegraaff

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

— E. O. Wilson

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Frankie Boyle

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

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 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

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

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

— Robin Ince