Evolution Quotes · Page 34

A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your…

— Anne Wojcicki

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

— Seth Godin

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

— Thomas E. Mann

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

— Steven Johnson

“We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion.”

— Bryant McGill

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

— Karl Popper

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— D. Washington-Jones

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

— Kevin Kelly

“I have no reason to believe humans evolved with the capability to understand their reality. That capability was not important to survival.…

— Scott Adams

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue…

— Eric Idle

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are…

— James J. Gibson

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many…

— Stephane Simian

“Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was…

— James L. Stokesbury

The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie…

— Stanislav Grof

Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month…

— Doug Stanhope

“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving…

— Bernie Siegel

I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers.…

— Tariq Ramadan

i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow…

— Craig Clevenger

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new,…

— George Leonard

“Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it…

— Richard Dawkins

Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are…

— Alan Haselhurst

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even…

— James Richardson

[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings…

— Rudolph Schoenheimer

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

— George Bernard Shaw

“There's little value in advancing technology if our consciousness, compassion, conversation and cooperation is regressing.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

— Michael Shermer

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

— Pope Pius XII

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

— Corneliu E. Giurgea

“Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.”

— Kamal Ravikant

Isn't it interesting how Christians are not afraid to teach their children about evolution?

— Ken Ham

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

— Rachel Carson

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

— Linus Pauling

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

— Charles Darwin

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

— Max Delbruck

“Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.”

— Joshua Dysart

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

— Barry Schuler

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

— Milton Berle