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• One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they… — Arthur C. Clarke
• Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison
• Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that… — Jimmy Carter
• It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier
• Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears… — Jacques Monod
• We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in… — Oliver Goldsmith
• The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The… — Richard Dawkins
• Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and… — Ernst Mayr
• Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis
• The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould
• On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of… — Simon Conway Morris

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