Spontaneous Generation Quotes

14 quotes by 7 authors

• Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from… — Kelly Miller
• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
• There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is… — George Wald
• Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are… — George Wald
• One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we… — George Wald
• The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during… — Ilya Prigogine
• Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are… — Chandra Wickramasinghe
• Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour,… — Henri Poincare
• When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was… — George Wald
• Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. — Henri Poincare
• I do not want to believe in God.  Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to… — George Wald
• [Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is… — George Wald
• Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. — Louis Pasteur

Who Wrote These Spontaneous Generation Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 14 Spontaneous Generation Quotes as follows:

• 6 Spontaneous Generation Quotes by George Wald
• 2 Spontaneous Generation Quotes by Henri Poincare
• 1 Spontaneous Generation Quote by Kelly Miller
• 1 Spontaneous Generation Quote by Adam Sedgwick
• 1 Spontaneous Generation Quote by Ilya Prigogine
• 1 Spontaneous Generation Quote by Chandra Wickramasinghe
• 1 Spontaneous Generation Quote by Louis Pasteur