Evolution Quotes · Page 34

If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.

— Alvin Plantinga

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

— Anonymous

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

— Ian Hacking

“Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.”

— John Charles Chasteen

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

— Benjamin Carson

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

— Sanjaya Malakar

“The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.”

— Carl Sagan

“The human form was never [formed] to beget children. This tendency among people to cohabit is nothing but animal instinct inherited from…

— Meher Baba

People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts,…

— Bruce H. Lipton

To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at…

— Jim Goad

“Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and humanity cannot claim any…

— Thomas Vazhakunnathu

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable…

— Richard Dawkins

People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and…

— Katharine Hayhoe

Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays…

— Leon Croizat

“What is much less clear is the role of embryological mechanisms in evolution, and how they might contribute to species diversity.”

— Anonymous

Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand…

— Rachel Carson

It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could…

— Stephen Hawking

We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent…

— Carl Sagan

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and…

— Oscar Wilde

“Genes have plenty to do with behavior. Even more appropriately, all behavioral traits are affected to some degree by genetic variability.65 They…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“During the decades after Darwin published, field geologists and paleontologists have gone on to uncover and discover thousands and thousands of fossils.…

— Bill Nye

“The power of your ancestors and the magic of the cosmos is in your DNA”

— Jan Porter

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

— Hendrik Poinar

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

— Rene Dubos

We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

— Diane Ackerman

You cannot evolve unless you are willing to change. You will never better yourself, if you always cling to what was.

— Leon Brown

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

— Richard Dawkins

“the transforming principle could not be made of DNA because nucleic acids were all alike. As”

— Matthew Cobb

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

— Daniel Nathans

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human…

— Rudolf Steiner

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

— Anonymous

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing…

— Steven Pressfield

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

— Peter R. Grant

My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.

— Robert Sapolsky

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.”

— James D. Carswell