Evolution Quotes

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The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences… — Ray Lankester
The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer… — Richard Goldschmidt
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later… — Karl Ernst von Baer
The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the… — John Hughlings Jackson
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild… — Charles Galton Darwin
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our… — Karl Ernst von Baer
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It is… — George Gaylord Simpson
The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron… — Kenneth E. Boulding
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey… — Louis Agassiz
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will… — Julian Huxley
The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life. — John Jeremiah Bigsby
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In… — Ernst Haeckel
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with… — August Weismann
We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the chromosomes.… — Richard Goldschmidt
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something… — Seth Shostak
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence… — Bruce Alberts
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent… — George Gaylord Simpson

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