Evolution Quotes

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If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality… — Jonas Salk
You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work. — Wallace D. Wattles
Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus… — Ken Wilber
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community… — Thomas Kuhn
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species… — Carl Sagan
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. — Richard Dawkins
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to… — Richard Dawkins
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils… — Richard Dawkins
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth. — George W. Bush
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power… — Bill O'Reilly
I did not know from a scientific perspective why I did not believe in evolution - but I knew from a Biblical perspective it had… — Ken Ham
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new… — Richard Dawkins
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea). — Michael Shermer
Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable. — Ernst Mayr
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained… — Stephen Jay Gould
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science. — Stephen Jay Gould
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of… — E. O. Wilson

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