Evolution Quotes
1802 quotes by 987 authors
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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
— Rita Mae Brown
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On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it…
— Deepak Chopra
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...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered…
— Jane Goodall
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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.
— Sheena Iyengar
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The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
— John Wyndham
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It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.
— Ted Chiang
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There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of…
— Albert Einstein
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Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
— Eoin Colfer
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Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life…
— Michael Crichton
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As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the…
— Sam Harris
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Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs…
— Mark Kurlansky
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Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
— James Gleick
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Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.
— David Eagleman
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The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
— Eoin Colfer
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The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle.…
— Virchand Gandhi
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to…
— Edward Abbey
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We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage…
— Carl Sagan
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