Evolution Quotes

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As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that… — Francis Collins
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. — Francis Crick
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to… — E. O. Wilson
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the… — Francis Darwin
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by… — William Whewell
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by… — Martin Gardner
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist… — Frank Sulloway
Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God… — Michael Shermer
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by… — Mark Twain
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology,… — Charles Lapworth
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. — George Wald
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of… — George Wald
Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who… — Stephen Jay Gould
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the… — Richard Dawkins
Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. — Stephen Jay Gould
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to… — Donald Cram
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school… — Jacob Bronowski
Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent… — Richard Dawkins

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