Spontaneous Generation Quotes
14 quotes by 7 authors
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
— Henri Poincare
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I do not want to believe in God. Â Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to…
— George Wald
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[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
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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: