Evolution Quotes · Page 60

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

— Andrew Lo

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

“Ease of learning isn’t the primary force in language evolution.”

— Ted Chiang

If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

— Kent Hovind

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.

— Leroy Hood

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

— Eckhart Tolle

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

— William Ralph Inge

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys;…

— Ron Rothfield

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I…

— Richard Dawkins

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual…

— William Irwin Thompson

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all…

— Richard Koch

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning…

— James D. Watson

“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their…

— Hannah Landecker

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the…

— Eckhart Tolle

I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

“Muller was catapulted into the international fame by his discovery. The effect of radiation on the mutation rate in flies had two…

— Siddharta Mukherjee

“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the…

— Janine Benyus

If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will…

— Deepak Chopra

This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three…

— Julian Huxley

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved…

— Charles Darwin

Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't…

— Patrick Watson

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

— William Henry Drummond

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

— Walter Gilbert

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

— Stephen Baldwin

Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

— Ludwig Boltzmann

“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My hand-stitched wings itch to take flight to test the winds of change that inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.”

— B.G. Bowers

“The lengrh of all human DNA on planet earth is 58 million light-years.”

— Caleb Scharf

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

— Peter R. Grant

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

— Robert Briffault

Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.

— Kyle Hill

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

— John B. S. Haldane

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

— Richard Dawkins

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

— Sharon Cameron

We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.

— David Perlmutter