Evolution Quotes · Page 46

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

— Robert A. Heinlein

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

— Michio Kaku

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

— Robert Ardrey

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

— Ogden Nash

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You bloated dickhead, you really are proof that evolution can go in reverse.”

— Cherise Sinclair

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

— David Attenborough

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

— Alfred Romer

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know…

— David Baltimore

The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ...…

— Aristid Lindenmayer

'Lucha Underground' is the evolution of wrestling. It's high-style, high-flying, fast-paced hybrid style wrestling, and we're actually paying homage to lucha libre…

— Rey Mysterio

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And…

— Edward Albee

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

— Dave Barry

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

— Ian Wilmut

My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago,…

— Elaine Morgan

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to…

— Jared Diamond

“There are many examples where species share common plastic traits. What appears to be convergence may just be the plastic response of…

— Lee Spetner

“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific…

— James A. Shapiro

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You…

— Terence McKenna

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But…

— Mark Kurlansky

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it…

— Piet Mondrian

Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they…

— Luke Mitchell

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

— Bill Hicks

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.

— Michael Mosley

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

— Eoin Colfer

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

— Emo Philips

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

— Ivan Reitman

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk

“The greatest obstacle in our evolution is that WE ARE TOO DIVIDED.”

— Suzy Kassem

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

— Francis Crick

It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in…

— Daniel J. Solove

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

— Anne Wojcicki

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

— Joel Garreau

Genes are very important at the individual level but these differences tend to cancel at the national level.

— Richard H. Steckel

“A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.”

— Steven Pinker

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

If you're dumb enough to do crack, you're supposed to die. It's evolution.

— Joe Rogan