Evolution Quotes · Page 36

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

— Kehinde Wiley

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

— Edward Young

“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

— E.J.H. Corner

“As the biologist Leslie Orgel´s second law states: „Evolution is smarter than you are.”

— David Eagleman

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

— Alberto Giacometti

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

— Gary Hamel

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

— Charles Kettering

“The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.”

— Judah Freed

The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to…

— Richard M. Nixon

I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer…

— Kent Hovind

Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the…

— David Shenk

“The forces that we deal with have two sides: one is good and helpful and the other is dark and dangerous. Part…

— Gala.J

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into…

— Anonymous

“Transfixed by the bright gaze of a lizard, I become calm. This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea…

— Peter Matthiessen

The definition of who's literate and who's not keeps changing. So, in Neanderthal times, if you painted on a cave wall, that…

— Juan Enriquez

evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has…

— Natalie Angier

“So here we find that the animals, and the plants, the vegetation, became living souls, and were created spiritually before they were…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an…

— Louis Pasteur

Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on…

— Julian Huxley

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information,…

— David Pilbeam

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or…

— Primo Levi

In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that…

— Sue Hubbell

“If these d'Herelle bodies were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which…

— Anonymous

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

— Stephen Jay Gould

One dip in that toxic muck and your DNA will be permanently mutated. You'll grow a camel hump or a Zoidberg face.…

— Futurama

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

— Timothy Leary

“We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.”

— Allegra Goodman

“The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution”

— Lance Parkin

“We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.”

— Caspar Henderson

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

— Charles Lyell

“the pace of our ability to read and write DNA increases tenfold every year.”

— James Rollins

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

— John Jeremiah Bigsby

As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.

— Eduard Buchner

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

— Albert Hofmann

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

— Anne Wojcicki

“Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable.”

— Richard Dawkins

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

— Bill Walton

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

— Kesha