Evolution Quotes

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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. — George Santayana
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction… — Charles Darwin
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its… — James Clerk Maxwell
There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but… — Carl Linnaeus
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor… — Charles Darwin
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life.… — Fritjof Capra
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. — Herbert Spencer
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning… — E. O. Wilson
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them,… — Francis Crick
Uniformity and Evolution are one. — Charles Lapworth
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. — Thomas Huxley
We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any… — Stephen Jay Gould
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom… — Asa Gray
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… — Thomas Kuhn
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an… — Charles Darwin
Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science… — Ronald Reagan
When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty… — Chauncey Depew
While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and… — Carl Sagan

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