Evolution Quotes

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For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of… — John Hughlings Jackson
However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science. — Joseph Dalton Hooker
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have… — Louis Agassiz
I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing… — Ernest MacBride
It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole… — Gardner Murphy
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education.… — Ernst Haeckel
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he… — George Gaylord Simpson
Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like… — Jacques Loeb
Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when… — Everett C. Olson
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity… — Wernher von Braun
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the… — Ernst Haeckel
Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays with time and… — Leon Croizat
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific… — David Lack
On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera… — Karl Landsteiner
One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder

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