Evolution Quotes · Page 25

“Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always…

— Idries Shah

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

— George Gaylord Simpson

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

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

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

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

— Bruce R. McConkie

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening…

— Jeff Bezos

As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into…

— Anne Wojcicki

To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is…

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution…

— Ray Comfort

This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to…

— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait…

— Richard Dawkins

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species,…

— Ernst Mayr

“It isn’t genes alone that determine our health destiny, but instead it’s our food and lifestyle choices. Genes do not control us,…

— Anonymous

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right…

— Louie Schwartzberg

“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of…

— Ian McDonald

“A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in…

— Neal Stephenson

It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction…

— Linus Pauling

Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur…

— Joseph McCabe

“I have discussed how the goal of feeling happy is unusual; its not like other goals such as learning to bake a…

— Jonathan Rottenberg

Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these…

— Robert Wright

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

— Frankie Boyle

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

— John Marburger

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

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

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

— Hal Borland

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

— Robin Ince

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

— Randolph M. Nesse

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

“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

“Living creatures, including human beings, are organic hardware and software, running programs encoded in DNA.”

— Sahara Sanders

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

— Idries Shah