Biology Quote by John Ambrose Fleming

There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic…

— Gerald A. Kerkut

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

— Walter Lang

To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of…

— Henry Lipson

The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of…

— August Weismann

We completely reject the theory of evolution.

— John Ambrose Fleming

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that…

— Henry M. Morris

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence…

— Richard Dawkins

We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and…

— Thomas Kuhn

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

— Jan Smuts

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence…

— E. O. Wilson

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of…

— Baron d'Holbach

If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe…

— Thomas Huxley