Evolution Quotes · Page 31

Why is it easier for some people to believe their ancestors were a clump of mud and a cannibalized body part, than…

— Rock Cowles

I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

— Errol White

I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.

— Ann Coulter

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

— Peter R. Grant

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

— Richard Dawkins

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

— Richard Dawkins

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what…

— William Temple

“Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we…

— Tom Althouse

Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain,…

— Paul Allen

We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient…

— Jack Horner

I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I…

— Lady Gaga

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp…

— Paul Bloom

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin…

— E. O. Wilson

“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place,…

— Robin Furth

In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants…

— Anonymous

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that…

— Frank Herbert

“Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental than differences. Less fundamental, but no less…

— Alfred Korzybski

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced…

— Carl Linnaeus

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of,…

— Charlie Kaufman

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

— Gregory Stock

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

— William A. Dembski

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

— Konrad Lorenz

“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

— Martin Luther

Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

— Gary A. Klein

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

— Jimmy Swaggart

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

— Edwin Louis Cole

“Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?”

— Idries Shah

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

— Robert Charles Wilson

“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch

The evolutionists worship atheism. I mean, that's their religion.

— Pat Robertson

“Alpha et Omega concurrunt in idem locus" "Alpha and Omega meet at the same locus”

— C