Evolution Quotes

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Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which… — Carl Linnaeus
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there… — Benjamin Disraeli
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she… — Charles Kingsley
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace… — Richard Dawkins
The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and… — Francis Collins
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also… — Carl Sagan
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed… — Charles Darwin
To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today,… — Richard Leakey
The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth. — Aldo Leopold
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. — Henry David Thoreau
Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different… — Kenneth R. Miller
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read… — Ambrose Bierce
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of… — Charles Darwin
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day… — Mark Twain
There is no god higher than truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material… — Stephen Jay Gould
Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who are ignorant of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be… — David Attenborough

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