Evolution Quotes

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I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets… — H.G. Wells
We are survival machines â€“ robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me… — Richard Dawkins
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has… — J M Coetzee
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the… — Robert J. Sawyer
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would… — Charles Darwin
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly… — Charles Darwin
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower… — Charles Darwin
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the… — Robert J. Sawyer
....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away… — Lisa Lutz
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. — Dan Simmons
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled… — Bertrand Russell
Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary… — Greg Graffin
My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are… — Steve Martin
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the… — Karl Lagerfeld
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one… — Hendrik Hertzberg
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. — Karl Lagerfeld
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy. — Charles Darwin

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