Biology Quote by Karl Ernst von Baer

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch…

— Daniel Dennett

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in…

— Woodrow Wilson

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional…

— Stephen Jay Gould

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

— Stephen Jay Gould

My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make…

— Nils Heribert-Nilsson

I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

— Errol White

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

— Stephen Jay Gould

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…

— Michael Shermer

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

— Michael Shermer

“[o]f course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date…

— Woodrow Wilson

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must…

— Simon Conway Morris