Evolutionary Quotes
321 quotes by 235 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.
— Albert Mohler
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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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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