Evolution Quotes
1802 quotes by 982 authors
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
— Erich Fromm
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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly…
— Bill Gates
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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
— Germaine Greer
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Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should…
— Ray Comfort
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Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.
— Ray Comfort
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
— Confucius
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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
— William Congreve
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that…
— Charles Darwin
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
— Charles Darwin
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races…
— Charles Darwin
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Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution…
— Evan Davis
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science…
— Richard Dawkins
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
— Richard Dawkins
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
— Richard Dawkins
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
— Richard Dawkins
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For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is…
— Richard Dawkins
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