Evolution Quotes · Page 33

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

— Karl Pilkington

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

— Richard Dawkins

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

— C. S. Lewis

“The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.”

— Idries Shah

I think if you push to get to know somebody, it's not a natural evolution.

— Ann Reinking

Digital world is changing its home, and I am in search of an evolution that exists beyond the digital world.

— Pranav Mistry

“If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?”

— Dara O'Briain

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

— Richard Dawkins

“It may well be that when Sapiens encountered Neanderthals, the result was the first and most significant ethnic-cleansing campaign in history.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their…

— Betty Friedan

If the travels of a country were to be chronicled by its cars, in the journey from the Ambassador to the Nano…

— Barkha Dutt

Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it…

— Lord Kelvin

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of…

— Erasmus Darwin

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network…

— Richard Owen

The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public…

— Raphael Carter

Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Mr. Charles Darwin, who looked a bit like God which is interesting, wrote a book called You're a Fucking Monkey, Mate. He…

— Eddie Izzard

There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.…

— Richard Dawkins

All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural…

— Konrad Lorenz

In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never…

— Carl Correns

“It was the magnesium. The addition of the ion was critical: with the solution supplemented with magnesium, the ribosome remained glued together,…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves…

— Thomas Huxley

“It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral.”

— Stephen Herfst

Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.

— Jennifer Hyman

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

— Ann Coulter

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

— Saint Augustine

It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

— Will Cuppy

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

— Matt Ridley

“Life is a chance at Evolution. Overcome yourself and Become. ☥”

— Luis Marques

“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")”

— William S. Wilson

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

— John Bacon

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

— Julian Huxley

“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.”

— Neil Shubin

We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.

— Sebastian Thrun

“Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.”

— David Kitts

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

— M. Scott Peck

FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

— Anne Wojcicki