We are at a turning point of revolution species. Evolution…

It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.

— F. C. S. Schiller

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

— John Polkinghorne

The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think…

— George Gaylord Simpson

[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every…

— Richard Dawkins

Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before…

— Russell Brand

“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by…

— Sun Yat-sen

“In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and…

— Urantia Foundation

“I beg you to see this in the right light, and to combine it with the feeling about what happened through the Mystery of…

— Rudolf Steiner

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising…

— Maria Montessori

“The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit and experienced…

— Monica Sjöö

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I…

— Richard Dawkins

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The…

— Frans de Waal

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars