Evolution Quotes · Page 48

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.”

— Steven Pinker

“There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.”

— Bryant McGill

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

— George Carlin

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

— Ryan North

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

— Tim LaHaye

“Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.”

— Idries Shah

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

— Emo Philips

We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that…

— John Dupre

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for…

— Mario Puzo

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to…

— William A. Dembski

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

— Richard Dawkins

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most…

— Michael Pollan

The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means…

— Neill Blomkamp

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the…

— John Playfair

You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple…

— Greg Zeschuk

Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes…

— Maia Szalavitz

“Our bones are more gracile than those of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors, our personalities less aggressive, our societies more trusting and cohesive.…

— Nicholas Wade

“The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its…

— Daniel C. Dennett

“We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more.…

— Heather E. Heying

We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been…

— Michael Shermer

We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in…

— A. C. Dixon

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

— Ivan Reitman

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

— David Attenborough

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

— Eoin Colfer

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

— Richard Dawkins

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.

— Michael Mosley

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

— Bill Hicks

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

— Alfred Romer

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

— Francis Crick

Genes are very important at the individual level but these differences tend to cancel at the national level.

— Richard H. Steckel

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

— Joel Garreau

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

— Anne Wojcicki

It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in…

— Daniel J. Solove

“The greatest obstacle in our evolution is that WE ARE TOO DIVIDED.”

— Suzy Kassem

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.

— Bill Hicks