Evolution Quotes · Page 59

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

— George W. Bush

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

— Francis Collins

“Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.”

— Idries Shah

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very…

— Kirk Cameron

Never try to change a person. We all evolve as life goes on. Love people as they are.

— Anmol Andore

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.

— Edward Forbes

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

— Peter R. Grant

“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a…

— Idries Shah

Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the…

— Vinton Cerf

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its…

— Samuel Wilberforce

Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel…

— Fred Ehrsam

“When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits…

— Richard Dawkins

“As I write this, organisms endowed with genomes are learning to change the heritable features of organisms endowed with genomes.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Genes do not determine disease on their own. Genes function only by being activated, or “expressed,” and nutrition plays a critical role…

— T. Colin Campbell

A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement…

— Ronald Fisher

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make…

— Peter Garrett

“Common sense says that the amazing complexity of life cannot arise out of a random process. The neo-Darwinians use clever arguments to…

— Lee Spetner

“Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did…

— David Abram

“I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority…

— Charles Darwin

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the…

— Vasily Grossman

Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

“Metabolically active cells, such as those of the liver, kidneys, muscles, and brain, have hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, making up some…

— Nick Lane

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world…

— Sean M. Carroll

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

— Ram Dass

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

— Ben Stein

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

— Christopher Hitchens

“DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. —Richard Dawkins”

— Chip Walter

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

— Isaac Asimov

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

— Amit Goswami

The next evolution of content marketing is not more content; it's better distribution.

— Chris Penn

“It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.”

— Idries Shah

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

— Gever Tulley

The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.

— Alan Tudyk

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism

— Frank Knight

Evolution is a constant state. You evolve and become comfortable in situations in which you might have felt alien in the past.

— Arjun Kapoor

“Fear is necessary for evolution. The fear that one could be destroyed at any moment.”

— Sosuke Aizen

“The only unstoppable organism in the universe, is the mind that embraces evolution over limitation.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

— W. Richard Stevens