Evolution Quotes · Page 55

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

— Jared Diamond

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

— Bela Fleck

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

— Anonymous

“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change.

— Charles Darwin

“Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.”

— Loren Eiseley

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

— Steven Johnson

First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.

— E. Lee Spence

“Did you know? There are three major milestones in human evolution. One, the discovery of fire; two, the invention of the wheel;…

— Merlin Franco

The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer,…

— Elliott Sober

We are in an interesting place in the evolution in our community in the people want to be indistinguishable from heterosexuals. I…

— Kit Williamson

We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern…

— Richard Goldschmidt

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code…

— Francis Crick

“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack…

— Carl Sagan

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be…

— John Smith

The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut…

— Marianne Williamson

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that…

— George Trumbull Ladd

We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as…

— Asa Gray

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions…

— David Attenborough

“Tags [distinctive agent features observable by other agents] almost always define the network by delimiting the critical interactions, the major connections. Tags…

— John H. Holland

I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting…

— Walter Houser Brattain

“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random…

— Richard Dawkins

“It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and…

— William Bateson

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

— Jack Welch

With the evolution of basketball there's always going to be new types of players and moves.

— Aaron Gordon

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

— Henry Petroski

Environment, not genes, plays starring role in human immune variation.

— Anonymous

If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff,

— Ronald Breslow

“Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.”

— Haruki Murakami

I am passionate about social issues and work hard in the community to positively impact the evolution of social ills.

— Phaedra Parks

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

— Gregory Stock

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

— William A. Dembski

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of,…

— Charlie Kaufman

Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

— Gary A. Klein

“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

— Martin Luther

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

— Konrad Lorenz