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Evolution Quotes by Carl Sagan
- (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park…
- 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…
- Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with…
- We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15…
- We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped.…
- The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over…
- We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.
- We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing…
- We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Evolution Quotes
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot… — ZhatsPrincess
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
- Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? — Stephen Baldwin