Evolution Quotes · Page 53

“Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.”

— Joshua Dysart

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

— Barry Schuler

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

— William Jennings Bryan

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

— Laura Jane Grace

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

— Milton Berle

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

— Damien Fahey

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

— William A. Dembski

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

— Marc Maron

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who…

— Alex Jones

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged…

— Sri Aurobindo

“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel…

— Karl Popper

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and…

— Carl Sagan

The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you…

— Frederick Lenz

“Genes are not destiny. They may define some of your physical features and give you a tiny head start on some things,…

— Jamie Le Fay

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences…

— Annie Besant

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…

— Ernst Mayr

“[E]volution is not a cause, but the description of a process … Can we in any way explain the origin of species?…

— Anonymous

“One mitochondrion contains tens of thousands of copies of each respiratory complex. A single cell contains hundreds or thousands of mitochondria. Your…

— Nick Lane

Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has…

— Ronald Fisher

So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness;…

— Peter Shepherd

You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for…

— Anonymous

“Once an egg has been fertilized and managed to attach itself to the wall of the uterus and gastrulates (produces the three…

— Bill Nye

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the…

— Mark Twain

Genetic engineering is man's way of correcting God's hideous mistakes, like German people. - Mr. Garrison

— South Park

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

— Jerzy Grotowski

“With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic…

— Richard Dawkins

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.

— Bill Gross

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

— Lech Walesa

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

— Richard Owen

Only by a process of peaceful evolution can China accomplish its own goals of being a free, prosperous, and strong country.

— Li Lu

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

— Frances Bean Cobain

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

— John Maynard Smith

Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

— Kary Mullis

The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do.

— Anonymous

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

“There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.”

— Idries Shah

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

“There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a…

— Idries Shah