Evolution Quotes · Page 50

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

— Usher

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

— Peter Thiel

How you eat tells your genes what type of body you want to have later.

— Dharma Singh Khalsa

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy…

— Spider Robinson

In the jungle, size is king. Women like big men. That's just evolution.

— Mike Cernovich

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

— Steven Pinker

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for…

— Harald zur Hausen

Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.

— Jonathan Sarfati

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it…

— William A. Dembski

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital…

— Sybil Leek

“What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital...the machine code of the genes…

— Matt Ridley

There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more…

— Scott Pruitt

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes…

— Haruki Murakami

Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't…

— Patrick Watson

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved…

— Charles Darwin

This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three…

— Julian Huxley

If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will…

— Deepak Chopra

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary…

— Harvey V. Fineberg

“It is the form of hemoglobin, then, that permits its function. The physical structure of the molecule enables its chemical nature, the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.…

— E. O. Wilson

“Push up some mountains. Cut them down. Drown the land under the sea. Push up some more mountains. Cut them down. Push…

— Keith Meldahl

“evolution doesn’t have much interest in protecting us anymore because we’re less likely to have—or be able to bear—children.”

— David B. Agus

“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

— George M. Church

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

— Charles Lamb

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

— Matt Ridley

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

— Paul Allen

“Spank me! That's still a punishment. You bloated dickhead, you really are proof that evolution can go in reverse.”

— Cherise Sinclair

“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors." Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.”

— Sebastián Wortys

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

— George Will

The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

— Shreya Ghoshal

“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.”

— Matt J. Rossano

“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

— Alvin Toffler

I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game.

— Patrick Vieira