Evolution Quotes · Page 24

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

— Tom Frieden

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

— Bill Gates

“Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks.”

— John J. Ratey

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

— Carl Linnaeus

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

— Greg Graffin

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

— J. Philippe Rushton

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

— Richard Dawkins

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

— Michael Behe

'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is…

— Doreen Valiente

“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.”

— Idries Shah

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to…

— Gaspar Noe

“improving on the natural course if evolution—which, attendees argued, could be so cruel as to justify some sort of intervention.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze…

— Carl Sagan

If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would…

— Lily Tomlin

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their…

— Theophrastus

The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some…

— Lewis Thomas

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys…

— Richard Dawkins

“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to…

— E. O. Wilson

I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth…

— Astra Taylor

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world,…

— Albert Einstein

Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in…

— Anonymous

“I approach the creation-evolution dispute not as a scientist but as a problem of law, which means among other things that I…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?”

— John Milton

“No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.”

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

— Thomas Hardy

“genes might control the possibilities, but epigenetics determines our destiny.”

— A.G. Riddle

“Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,”

— Steve Merrick

“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it!”

— Richard Dawkins

“Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Evolutionists will continue to find missing links until all will be amiss for we will still ask how we got here.

— Martin Dansky

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

— Phyllis Schlafly

No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add…

— Gregory Stock

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

— Chuck Liddell

Ever noticed that people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved?

— Anonymous

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

— Madonna Ciccone

We told you this would happen, if gay marriage is legalized, then much chaos would follow.

— Bill O'Reilly