Evolution Quotes · Page 47

“We are not saying that Evolution can't exist, only that it is guided by His Noodly Appendage.”

— Bobby Henderson

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the…

— Simon Munnery

“Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.”

— Steven Pinker

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

— Tim LaHaye

“Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.”

— Idries Shah

“There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.”

— Bryant McGill

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

— Ryan North

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

— George Carlin

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of…

— Richard Dawkins

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of…

— H. L. Mencken

“as Gilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input…

— Carol S. Dweck

The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

— Stella Gibbons

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

— Richard Thompson

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern…

— Richard Dawkins

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to…

— Richard Goldschmidt

The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject…

— Simon Conway Morris

Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort…

— Rodney Stark

“True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength…

— Darrell Calkins

I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people…

— Devendra Banhart

The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an…

— Greg Graffin

Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the…

— Charles Darwin

“It is all too easy to confuse fundamentalism with passion. I may well appear passionate when i defend evolution against a fundamentalist…

— Richard Dawkins

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such…

— Charles Darwin

“Evolution prefers to add on to what it’s created, rather than start from scratch”

— Anonymous

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the…

— Richard Dawkins

So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on…

— Judson Laipply

“Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is…

— John Yates

“Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.”

— Andrew Carnegie

Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.

— Bill Jay

“right. There’s DNA on those sheets. You got her, even if you don’t get”

— John Sandford

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

— Daniel Goleman

“Evolving is life’s greatest accomplishment and its greatest reward.”

— Ray Dalio

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

— Eckhart Tolle

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

— Maria Montessori

It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.

— Bill Hicks

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

— Karel Appel

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

— Jonathan Haidt