Evolution Quotes

Optimization hinders evolution.

— Alan Perlis

“Evolution is an algorithm.”

— Pedro Domingos

Genes are not destiny!

— Bruce Lipton

“We are; therefore, we evolve.”

— Geert Hofstede

Genes are natural resources.

— Leroy Hood

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

— Bill Bailey

“what makes us evolve?”

— Lee Vickers

“DNA has memory!”

— Isaiah Washington

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

— Bill Hicks

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

— Richard Dawkins

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

— Eric Baum

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

— Rafael Cruz

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

— William Jennings Bryan

The next frontier is our own selves.

— Joel Garreau

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

— Aimee Bender

There is no political solution to our troubled evolution.

— The Police

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

— African Spir

There's something about the pipes that just connects with Scots, they go mental for it - it's in our DNA somehow.

— Tom Walker

“We view the world on a molecular level. The building blocks, not the end results.”

— Susan Mallery

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

— John Templeton

“Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules, when uniquely linked, words form a DNA of indelible visions.”

— Todd Crawshaw

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

— Lewis Thomas

“My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Are we products of nature or nurture? It's the wrong question. It's not one or the other. Nor is it a combination…

— Beau Lotto

I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued…

— J. D. Vance

We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of…

— Petra Kelly

If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at…

— Peter Singer

We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions…

— Michael Fox

The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it... Evolution is a…

— Paul Lemoine

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

— Charles Darwin

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of…

— Jan Smuts

“The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue…

— Jonathan Wells

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs…

— John Dos Passos

“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of…

— William S. Wilson

“in Solution Most chemical reactions that occur on the earth’s surface, whether in living organisms or among inorganic substances, take place in…

— Anonymous

I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients…

— Joe Quirk

“In the late 1970s, scientists working on gene-silencing discovered that the attachment of a small molecule-a methyl group-to DNA was correlated with…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is…

— Rodolfo Llinas