Ancestor Quote by Carl Sagan

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still…

— Michael Behe

Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example, why do…

— Elliott Sober

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

— Michael Behe

“our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million…

— Richard Dawkins

“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This…

— Bryan Sykes

“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal Common Ancestor.…

— Salman Rushdie

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

— Haruki Murakami

My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in…

— Martin Amis

“There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.”

— Anonymous

We understand that in this globalized world we all need to work together. As the Pope says in his encyclical, "Laudato Si," the Earth…

— Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo