Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior… — Adolf Hitler
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard… — Fred Hoyle
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists… — Phillip E. Johnson
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the… — Sri Aurobindo
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and… — Susan Blackmore
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. — Kenneth E. Boulding
The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much… — John H. Dietrich
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition,… — Earnest Hooton
You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time. — Albert Mohler
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the… — Douglas J. Futuyma
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads… — Elizabeth S. Anderson
Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture… — Jerry Sabloff
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of… — Michael Denton
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an… — Michael Denton
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity,… — Robert Trivers
If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary… — Mary Daly
We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should… — Vladimir Putin
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,… — Steven Pinker
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… — Ilya Prigogine

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