Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier… — Arthur Keith
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to… — Arthur Keith
I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which… — Mark Canton
I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client… — James L. Barksdale
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially… — Paul Berg
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the… — Goodluck Jonathan
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing… — Phillip E. Johnson
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have… — Phillip E. Johnson
...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of… — Peter Singer
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. — Lawrence M. Krauss
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned… — Ralph Adams Cram
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data… — Stephen Jay Gould
In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor… — Michael Denton
When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you… — Frederick Lenz
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, ..… — Daniel Dennett
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new… — Rupert Sheldrake
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary. — Daniel Kahneman
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them. — Eugenie Scott
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen

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