Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? — J. G. Ballard
Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence… — Thom Mayne
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. — Nancy Pearcey
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. — John Maynard Smith
Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church… — Peter Slipper
Entities are beings that are dead. They are the lowest beings on the evolutionary scale because they don't even know they are dead. They are… — Frederick Lenz
Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They are low on… — Frederick Lenz
In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of… — Frederick Lenz
It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology,… — Frederick Lenz
Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. — Richard K. Morgan
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by… — Ernst Mayr
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence… — Paul Davies
Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only… — Robert Zubrin
What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior. — Robert Ardrey
You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process. — Stephen Bayley
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. — Warren Farrell
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to… — Louise Hay

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