Evolution Quotes · Page 59

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

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ...…

— W. R. Thompson

“Time helps those who are present, gravity helps those who are moving, nature helps those who evolve, reality listens to those who…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The oldest many-celled fossil is over 600 million years old. The earliest fossil with a three-boned middle ear is less than 200…

— Neil Shubin

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the…

— Pope John Paul II

“Humans have far longer memories than do animals and, thus revenge -the social settling of accounts with those who offended them- assumes…

— Azar Gat

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best…

— Charles Darwin

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the…

— Alan Feduccia

There's enough evidence that variation in sexual orientation is more a function of genes than of environment and for that reason alone,…

— David Elkind

For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of…

— Raymond Dart

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not…

— Pope Pius XII

Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place,…

— Robin Furth

“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short…

— Christopher Hitchens

My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants…

— Anonymous

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that…

— Frank Herbert

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

— Mike Cernovich

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

— Spider Robinson

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

“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

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

— Oliver Sacks

We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

— Daniel Levitin

Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.

— Torbern Bergman

“The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.”

— Homer W. Smith

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

— Richard Dawkins

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

— J. William Schopf

“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith