--- title: "11 Life Evolved Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Life Evolved quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Life Evolved sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/sunday-adelaja-35_appreciating-people_life-evolved-from-time-594895_594895.jpg" --- > [“Life evolved from time”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/life-evolved-from-time/) [Sunday Adelaja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunday-adelaja/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/sunday-adelaja-35_appreciating-people_life-evolved-from-time-594895_594895.jpg) > [All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-hegan-rice/all-the-higher-forms-of-life-have-evolved-from-some-one-s-ideal-of/) [Alice Hegan Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-hegan-rice/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99e/alice-hegan-rice-18259_beauty_all-the-higher-forms-of-life-have-evolve_2193569.png) > [Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-kellogg/essentially-all-life-depends-upon-the-soil-there-can-be-no-life/) [Charles Kellogg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-kellogg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/charles-kellogg-57199_depends_essentially-all-life-depends-upon-the-so_1039740.jpg) > [No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/no-single-discovery-from-any-of-these-fields-denotes-proof-of/) [Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/michael-shermer-2567_biology_no-single-discovery-from-any-of-these-fi_3099206.jpg) > [Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessa-gamble/life-evolved-under-conditions-of-light-and-darkness-light-and-then/) [Jessa Gamble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessa-gamble/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82c/jessa-gamble-45545_animal_life-evolved-under-conditions-of-light-a_2193567.png) > [The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-fact-that-life-evolved-out-of-nearly-nothing-some-10-billion/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a54/richard-dawkins-115_evolution_the-fact-that-life-evolved-out-of-nearly_346099.jpg) > [All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-urey/all-of-us-who-study-the-origin-of-life-find-that-the-more-we-look/) [Harold Urey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-urey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc5/harold-urey-42546_articles_all-of-us-who-study-the-origin-of-life-f_307008.jpg) > [Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/life-has-evolved-to-thrive-in-environments-that-are-extreme-only-by/) [Jill Tarter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-tarter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/jill-tarter-29057_acid_life-has-evolved-to-thrive-in-environmen_1791509.png) > [“Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the chemistry of silicon so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-barrow/today-a-science-fiction-writer-looking-for-a-futuristic-tale-of/) [John D. Barrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-barrow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/john-d-barrow-4552_carbon_today-a-science-fiction-writer-looking-f_2824922.png) > [“Yes, Doctor,' I said. 'In brief, your argument is that Life is a thing, state, fact, or element, call-it-what-you-like, which requires the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hope-hodgson/yes-doctor-i-said-in-brief-your-argument-is-that-life-is-a-thing/) [William Hope Hodgson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hope-hodgson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19d/william-hope-hodgson-38192_life_yes-doctor-i-said-in-brief-your-argument_1471590.jpg) > [“Human minds settle into fixed ways of looking at the world, and that’s always been true,” he said in a 1995 interview…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-lashinsky/human-minds-settle-into-fixed-ways-of-looking-at-the-world-and-that-s/) [Adam Lashinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-lashinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/adam-lashinsky-3927_death_human-minds-settle-into-fixed-ways-of-lo_2485908.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-evolved/#itemlist", "name": "Life Evolved Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Life evolved from time”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sunday Adelaja" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/life-evolved-from-time/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/sunday-adelaja-35_appreciating-people_life-evolved-from-time-594895_594895.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/sunday-adelaja-35_appreciating-people_life-evolved-from-time-594895_594895.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/sunday-adelaja-35_appreciating-people_life-evolved-from-time-594895_594895.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Life evolved from time” — Sunday Adelaja", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Hegan Rice" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-hegan-rice/all-the-higher-forms-of-life-have-evolved-from-some-one-s-ideal-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99e/alice-hegan-rice-18259_beauty_all-the-higher-forms-of-life-have-evolve_2193569.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99e/alice-hegan-rice-18259_beauty_all-the-higher-forms-of-life-have-evolve_2193569.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99e/alice-hegan-rice-18259_beauty_all-the-higher-forms-of-life-have-evolve_2193569.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the…” — Alice Hegan Rice", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... 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But this form of silicon life could not have evolved spontaneously : it requires a carbon-based life-form to act as a catalyst. We are that catalyst.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John D. Barrow" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-barrow/today-a-science-fiction-writer-looking-for-a-futuristic-tale-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/john-d-barrow-4552_carbon_today-a-science-fiction-writer-looking-f_2824922.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/john-d-barrow-4552_carbon_today-a-science-fiction-writer-looking-f_2824922.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/john-d-barrow-4552_carbon_today-a-science-fiction-writer-looking-f_2824922.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the…” — John D. 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It is a Force generated by Conditions; but nevertheless this does not bring us one iota nearer to its explanation, any more than to the explanation of Electricity or Fire. They are, all three, of the Outer Forces - Monsters of the Void. Nothing we can do will create any one of them; our power is merely to be able, by providing the Conditions, to make each one of them manifest to our physical senses. Am I clear?' 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