Evolution Quotes · Page 55

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

— Herbert Spencer

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

— Anne Wojcicki

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

— Alexander McQueen

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

— Bill Gates

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

— George Gaylord Simpson

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

— Henry Cavill

I did not know from a scientific perspective why I did not believe in evolution - but I knew from a Biblical…

— Ken Ham

We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or…

— Thomas Bangalter

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do?…

— Roger Ebert

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness that renders the information and causes it…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Personally, I don't think it is acceptable to manipulate the human germline for the purpose of changing some genetic traits that will…

— Emmanuelle Charpentier

“Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.”

— Al Stone

“True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength…

— Darrell Calkins

“Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately…

— William Paley

If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to…

— Robert Trivers

The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the…

— William James

“Since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from…

— Stephen C. Meyer

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as…

— Tracy Lawrence

“Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it…

— Terry Pratchett

“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same…

— Isaac Newton

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

— John Marburger

Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.

— Frankie Boyle

There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

— Bruce R. McConkie

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

— Hal Borland

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

— Robin Ince

Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

— Eric Lander

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

— Noam Chomsky

“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

“Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.”

— Dan Brown

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

— Katha Pollitt

“Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.”

— TemitOpe Ibrahim

“If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.”

— Idries Shah

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

— Peace Pilgrim

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.

— Wendy Mogel

“Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.”

— Idries Shah