Evolution Quotes

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Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. — Stephen Jay Gould
Facebook is developing, and so are we. Timeline is a big step in the evolution of how we manage our identity online - and it's… — Joe Greene
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to… — Dag Hammarskjold
We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands. — Carl Sagan
The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't… — Paula Poundstone
If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be… — Jane Wagner
I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle. — Jane Wagner
Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of… — Konrad Lorenz
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards… — Konrad Lorenz
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far. — Clarence Day
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species… — Lewis Thomas
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay… — Esther Dyson
The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by… — Jacob Bronowski
Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to… — Jacob Bronowski
At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. — Martin Amis
Evolution is smarter than you are. — Leslie Orgel
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,… — Richard Leakey
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this… — Richard Leakey
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian. — Simon Conway Morris
Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me. — Victoria Moran

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