Evolution Quotes · Page 7

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

— Steven Wright

“You don’t have to solve it, only evolve it!”

— Silvia Hartmann

Things that dont change go extinct

— Code Geass

“The gene is the basic unit of selfishness.”

— Richard Dawkins

One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.

— Preston Cloud

Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.

— Marilyn Ferguson

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

— George Orwell

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

— Mehmet Oz

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

— Peter R. Grant

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

— Steven Pinker

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

— Anjelica Huston

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

— Gustave Flaubert

It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time…

— Nick Matzke

It is God who creates effects and preserves all things through God's almighty power.

— Martin Luther

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

— Caitlin Moran

“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”

— Charles Darwin

The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or…

— Ernst Haeckel

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

— Gary L. Francione

And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in…

— Herbert Spencer

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a…

— Richard Dawkins

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be…

— David Eagleman

[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains…

— Beryl Markham

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of…

— Louis T. Moore

The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than…

— Isaac Asimov

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a…

— Anonymous

“I think it’s imperative that we continue confusing light with meaning. That’s how the human race evolves. Someone sees a light, names…

— Kris Kidd

“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom…

— Kevin Kelly

You have to be open to change. I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could…

— Martha Stewart

“Genetics is a science full of gods, Mr. Sanchez.”

— Valeria Luiselli

“evolution is blind to the future”

— Richard Dawkins

No practice exists in isolation.

— Idries Shah

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

— Oscar Wilde

“A four-letter alphabet called DNA.”

— Matt Ridley

Technology is the gene uncorked.

— Jon Jones

“['Intelligent Design'] is a theology for control freaks.”

— Simon Conway Morris

“Genes are the petri dish of the Soul”

— Carol Ostrouch