Animals Quote by Jerry A. Coyne

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

— Jerry A. Coyne

“Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks, evolution raises such profound questions of purpose, morality, and meaning…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or plant into…

— Jerry A. Coyne

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

— Jerry A. Coyne

Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.

— Jerry A. Coyne

“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

— Jerry A. Coyne

“There is an increasing (and disturbing) tendency of psychologists, biologists, and philosophers to Darwinize every aspect of human behavior, turning its study into a…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that aren't true,…

— Jerry A. Coyne