Evolution Quotes · Page 58

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

— Pat Buchanan

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

— David Christian

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

— Michael Behe

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

— J. Arthur Thomson

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.

— Emil Theodor Kocher

“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately…

— Richard Dawkins

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and…

— Rachel Carson

What I want to do is demonstrate that biology can learn how to make a vast array of molecules that people thought…

— Frances Arnold

Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape.…

— Seth Shostak

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

“So I guess maybe that’ll be the next step in evolution – to break clean like those first amphibians who crawled out…

— Kurt Vonnegut

DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter.

— Deepak Chopra

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that…

— David Quammen

“do the chromosomes behave in ontogenesis?3 The growth of an organism is effected by consecutive cell divisions. Such a cell division is…

— Erwin Schrödinger

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some…

— Robert Jastrow

Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made…

— William Jennings Bryan

“Theism, as religious people typically hold it, does not merely state that some entity created the universe, but that the universe was…

— Tim Maudlin

Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation…

— Chandra Wickramasinghe

I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population,…

— Dalai Lama

“About 4,400 years ago 8 people stepped off Noah’s ark. According to the United Nations Population Growth Statistics, the world’s population grows…

— Michael Ben Zehabe

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

— A. E. Wilder-Smith

“We are just collections of DNA optimized for particular places and times.”

— Project Itoh

With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic…

— Neil Shubin

More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

— Martin Lings

Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

— Mira Grant

Social media is proof that humans have pretty much plateaued as far as evolution is concerned.

— Anonymous

The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.

— Libbie Hyman

I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.

— Elliott Sober

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

— Salvador Dali

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

— Francis Crick

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

— Richard Dawkins

I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

— Jack Horner

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

— Martin Luther

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

— Arthur Koestler

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

— Richard Dawkins