Evolution Quotes

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Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of… — Pope John Paul II
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the… — E. O. Wilson
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. — Stephen Jay Gould
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith
We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent. — Diane Ackerman
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and… — Douglas Adams
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. — Terry Pratchett
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an… — Arthur Koestler
Evolution is a tinkerer. — Francois Jacob
Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you… — John McCain
My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves. — Richard Leakey
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason,… — Adam Sedgwick
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in… — Huston Smith
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall.… — H.G. Wells
The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

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