Evolution Quotes · Page 32

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

— Arthur Keith

Ultimately, climate change, infectious diseases and famine could meet their match with applied and synthetic biology.

— Bryan Johnson

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

— Richard Dawkins

“Each of us begins life with the seeds of a unique genetic inheritance”

— Donald H. Clark

“You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.”

— Idries Shah

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

— Stephen Jay Gould

But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have…

— Ben Stein

The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far…

— David M. Raup

There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.

— H. A. Berlin

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…

— Jared Diamond

The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ...…

— Aristid Lindenmayer

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know…

— David Baltimore

“You'd think that people would have figured out by now that sticking a fork into the toaster is perhaps not the best…

— Gary Whitta

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something…

— Jonas Salk

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of…

— Nick Bostrom

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the…

— Georges Cuvier

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you…

— Eddie Vedder

“Reflecting back on the journey to the “Great Outdoors” places me in a different tonal mood, filled up with hope and passion,…

— Irucka Ajani Embry

As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are…

— John Jacob Abel

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly…

— Julian Huxley

We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense.”

— Richard Dawkins

Synthetic biology will be the future of manufacturing, engineering and medicine.

— Bryan Johnson

“Evolution is surely most deterministic for those still unaware of it”

— Richard D. Alexander

Years ago I began to realize that any genome can make any other, practically.

— Barbara McClintock 1980

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a…

— Charles Darwin

Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.

— Thomas Lovejoy

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

— Sylvia Earle

“We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.”

— Stephen Jones

Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know.

— Ellen Ullman

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

— George Gilder

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

— Muhammad Iqbal

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

— John Naisbitt

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

— Carl Linnaeus

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and…

— Mike Pence