Evolution Quotes

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For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. — Michael Crichton
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that… — Michael Crichton
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a… — Annie Dillard
you just took on five million years of evolution again — Scott Westerfeld
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently… — Michael Shermer
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations… — Richard Dawkins
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood… — Jose Saramago
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,… — Robert A. Heinlein
Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because,… — Bill Hicks
...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the… — Michael Shermer
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying… — Richard Dawkins
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that… — Richard Dawkins
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an… — Daniel Dennett
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago… — Richard Dawkins
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God. — G I Gurdjieff
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program. — Richard Dawkins
But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the same. All of… — Alyson Noel
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. — Richard Dawkins

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