Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. â€¦ Our… — Murray Bookchin
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws… — Ernst Haeckel
There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way… — Daniel Wolpert
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind. — Eckhart Tolle
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological… — Ray Kurzweil
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one… — Christian de Duve
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles… — Frans de Waal
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biologyâ€™s last twenty years has inflamed… — Niles Eldredge
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of… — Niles Eldredge
Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; itâ€™s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep level, we have… — Sarah Newton
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary… — Eric Chaisson
Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics… — Duane Gish
Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design. — Bela H. Banathy
We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than… — David M. Raup
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian… — David M. Raup
You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart, — Jay London
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and… — Jean Shepherd
Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of… — Allison Glock
That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time.… — Alex Shakar
A text is evolutionary by its very nature. — Reif Larsen

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