Evolution Quote by Francis Crick

The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual…

— John Desmond Bernal

From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth.…

— Martin Rees

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation…

— George Wald

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some…

— Leigh Page

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the…

— Henry Miller

There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There…

— George Wald

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

— Ray Davies

“Every other aspect of life that was once attributed to divine intent is now elegantly and completely explained in the context of evolutionary science.…

— Bill Nye

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials…

— John Polkinghorne

All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too…

— Harold Urey