Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give… — Julian Barnes
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. — Aldo Leopold
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben… — Don Winslow
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.… — Joseph Brodsky
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process -… — Richard Dawkins
There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without… — Raph Koster
This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle… — Nirmala Srivastava
Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but, resolving to love… — Marc Ian Barasch
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a… — Stephen Jay Gould
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still… — Lewis Thomas
As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of… — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist… — Frank Sulloway
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and… — Richard Leakey
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the… — Linus Pauling
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution… — Ronald Fisher
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
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

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