Evolution Quotes

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The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process… — Stephen Jay Gould
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose… — Stephen Jay Gould
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a… — Stephen Jay Gould
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no… — Stephen Jay Gould
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to… — Stephen Jay Gould
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one… — Stephen Jay Gould
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple. — Stephen Jay Gould
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in… — Stephen Jay Gould
We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings. — Gary Zukav
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation. — Charles Lyell
There is not enough evidence, consistent evidence to make it as fact, and I say that because for theory to become a fact, it needs… — Christine O'Donnell
You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans? — Christine O'Donnell
A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote… — Ernst Mayr
A species consists of a group of populations which replace each other geographically or ecologically and of which the neighboring ones integrate or hybridise wherever… — Ernst Mayr
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development. — Hugh Miller
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. — Will Cuppy
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored… — John B. S. Haldane
And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing,… — Charles Kingsley
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still… — Lewis Thomas
As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of… — Rita Levi-Montalcini

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