Evolution Quotes

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For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the… — Charles Darwin
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and… — Richard Leakey
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. — David Koepp
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it… — Georges Cuvier
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. — Konrad Lorenz
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould
I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC;… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most… — John B. S. Haldane
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of… — Thomas Huxley
I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool… — Linus Pauling
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding… — Herbert Spencer
If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air,… — George Wald
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have… — Georges Cuvier
If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked,… — Oliver Goldsmith
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and… — Wilhelm Wundt
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize… — E. O. Wilson
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism… — Thomas Huxley
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above. — Will Cuppy
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some… — Francis Collins

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