Evolution Quotes · Page 39

“We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion.”

— Bryant McGill

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

— Steven Johnson

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

— Frances Bean Cobain

Only by a process of peaceful evolution can China accomplish its own goals of being a free, prosperous, and strong country.

— Li Lu

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

— Richard Owen

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

— Lech Walesa

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do.

— Anonymous

“Fully 3 percent of our entire genome is devoted to genes for detecting different odors. Each of these genes makes a receptor…

— Neil Shubin

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera…

— Asa Gray

Now, humans have become a dominant force of planetary change and, thus, we may have entered an eon of post-biological evolution in…

— David Grinspoon

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to…

— Richard Goldschmidt

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern…

— Richard Dawkins

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

— Richard Thompson

“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.”

— Richard Dawkins

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they…

— Dick Gregory

The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for…

— Alan Cohen

“But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The flow of biological information was not restricted to heredity. It…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement.…

— Francis Crick

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one…

— Lynn Margulis

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely…

— Richard Dawkins

So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually…

— Dennis Merzel

“The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the…

— Lyman Abbott

Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

— Kary Mullis

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

— John Maynard Smith

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

“There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a…

— Idries Shah

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

“There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.”

— Idries Shah

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

— Richard Dawkins

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

— Karl Pilkington

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

— C. S. Lewis

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

— Barry Schuler

“Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.”

— Joshua Dysart

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

— Laura Jane Grace

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

— Milton Berle

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

— William Jennings Bryan

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

— Damien Fahey

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.

— Bill Gross