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Evolutionary Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
- I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.
- All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
- The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data…
- We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a…
- At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.
- What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other…
- We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for…
- People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary…
- 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…
- 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…
More Evolutionary Quotes
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at… — Buzz Aldrin
- So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
- The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its… — Shriram Sharma
- The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester
- The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than… — Richard Goldschmidt
- We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern… — Richard Goldschmidt
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak
- Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a… — Timothy Leary
- One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget.… — Candace Pert
- In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than… — Douglas MacArthur