Evolution Quotes · Page 29

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

— Lewis Thomas

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.

— Dean Ornish

“if that “monster” finds the right environment and succeeds, it might just end up changing the species for the better.”

— Eric Barker

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

— Gustave Flaubert

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

— Steven Pinker

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

— Anjelica Huston

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

— Peter R. Grant

“To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about…

— Steve Jones

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious…

— Richard Dawkins

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With…

— Jacky Ickx

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You can believe you came from a monkey all you want but if it was true I would be to emberassed to…

— Zach Dutton

No conscious person can read Peter D'Adamo's works without considering much more thoughtfully how their genetic inheritance relates to their needs for…

— Jeffrey Bland

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is…

— Richard Smalley

“When we discover the secrets behind the cryptograph that is the human gene, we will not only decode the mystery of life,…

— Dr. Ceral Sinclaire Nobel Laureate Geneticist

The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So…

— Sean Lennon

Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically,…

— Scott Adams

As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that…

— Michael Behe

There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of…

— Jane Goodall

I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature;…

— Elliott Sober

Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known…

— Zachary Quinto

“To get a sense of the scale of Earth history, imagine walking back in time, a hundred years per step—every pace equal…

— Robert M. Hazen

It is God who creates effects and preserves all things through God's almighty power.

— Martin Luther

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

— Caitlin Moran

It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time…

— Nick Matzke

“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”

— Charles Darwin

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

— Ray Comfort

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

— Goldwin Smith

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

— Iain McGilchrist

On the sixth day, God created the platypus. And God said: lets see the evolutionists try and figure this one out.

— Anonymous

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

— Nina Fedoroff

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

— James Redfield

It's amazing to see how if we don't open our minds to something different, we wont evolve as a species.

— Netta Barzilai

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

— Kinky Friedman

“The evolutionary curve obviously sloped pretty gently where Six came from.”

— John Connolly

It's not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased!

— Jonathan Sarfati

Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

— Hendrik Poinar

I watch Straus' fights way before we fought for the first time. He's in constant evolution.

— Patricio Freire