Evolution Quotes

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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of… — Richard Dawkins
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so… — Richard Dawkins
Evolution never looks to the future. — Richard Dawkins
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does… — Richard Dawkins
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it… — Ellen DeGeneres
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a… — Robert Delaunay
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently… — Daniel Dennett
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing… — Annie Dillard
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas A. Edison
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. — Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything… — Epictetus
Natural selection is not evolution. — Ronald Fisher
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex. — Joshua Foer
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as… — Stephen Hawking
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution. — Bill Hicks
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. — Elbert Hubbard
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. — Christopher Hitchens
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. — Aldous Huxley

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