Evolution Quotes

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It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come… — Francois Jacob
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot… — Henri Bergson
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is… — George Wells Beadle
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the… — Linus Pauling
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' — Gustave Flaubert
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. — Konrad Lorenz
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what… — Mark Twain
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals. — Charles Darwin
Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps.… — Joseph Butler
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. — Oliver Sacks
No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that… — Henry Norris Russell
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is… — Charles Darwin
Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from… — Lorenz Oken
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be… — Alison Jolly
Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical and… — John Burroughs
Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of… — Charles Darwin
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others. — Kin Hubbard
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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