Animals Quote by Jane Goodall

I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never heard of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While…

— Jacques Monod

I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion…

— James D. Watson

I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the…

— Henry Lipson

Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of…

— Gregory Bateson

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories…

— Anonymous

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

— Steven Wright

“CONTRARY TO THE COMMON ASSUMPTION , Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the mere…

— Daniel Quinn

Evolution was all over my chldhood, walks abroad with an evolutionist and the world was full of evolution, biological and botanical evolution.

— Anonymous

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed…

— E. O. Wilson

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but…

— John Burroughs

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

— Konrad Lorenz