Evolution Quotes

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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude… — Jacob Bronowski
Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with… — Carl Sagan
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human. — Jared Diamond
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology… — Lionel Tiger
The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation. — E. O. Wilson
Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally… — Robert Wright
God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do… — Francis Collins
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important… — Jane Goodall
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable. — Arthur Keith
Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have… — Steven Weinberg
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — Steven Weinberg
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is… — Karl Popper
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. — Lord Kelvin
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was… — Thomas Huxley
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic… — Fred Hoyle
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all… — Fred Hoyle
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is… — George Wald
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological… — Lynn Margulis
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he… — Asa Gray
Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to… — George MacDonald

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