Evolution Quotes · Page 27

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

— Donald Knuth

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

— Annie Dillard

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

— Raf Simons

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

— Vanna Bonta

“There’s no doubt about it: more varieties of carbon-based molecules exist than all other kinds of molecules combined.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming — you simply, are. Go easy.”

— Bryant McGill

“Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.”

— George Hammond

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that…

— Carl Zimmer

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

— Lee Strobel

We, our environment, our universe all share a common code base. In living things, this code comprises sequences of base pairs that…

— Bryan Johnson

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining…

— Richard Dawkins

“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

— Michael Behe

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement…

— Julian Huxley

Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species…

— Konrad Lorenz

The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution.…

— Roger Lewin

Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on…

— Julian Huxley

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information,…

— David Pilbeam

Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an…

— Louis Pasteur

In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation,…

— Ralph Abraham

“If these d'Herelle bodies were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which…

— Anonymous

“Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and…

— Carl Sagan

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

— Daniel Boulud

Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom.

— Giulio Natta

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.

— Robert Jastrow

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

— Robert T. Bakker

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

— Lewis Thomas

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

— Shana Alexander

“Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.”

— Idries Shah

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

“And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.”

— Suzy Kassem

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for…

— Idries Shah

Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.

— Edgar Ramirez

We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity.

— Pedro Capo

“Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?”

— Koji Suzuki

“Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution”

— Carl Sagan

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan