Evolution Quotes

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The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order… — Carl Linnaeus
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new,… — Henri Poincare
The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence… — Hermann Joseph Muller
The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are… — Plutarch
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human… — Stephen Jay Gould
The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds. — David C.H. Austin
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word… — William Jennings Bryan
The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition… — Hugh Miller
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful… — Charles Darwin
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our… — Robert Ardrey
The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race. — Henry Ward Beecher
The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some… — Ernst Mayr
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution… — Ronald Fisher
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world… — Charles Lyell
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that… — Thomas Huxley
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized,… — Wyndham Lewis
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up… — Charles Lyell
The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image… — William Jennings Bryan
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a… — Carl Sagan

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