America Quote by Luther Burbank

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as…

— Thomas Huxley

The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor…

— Martin Rees

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

— Jeff Bezos

“Countries don’t evolve culturally for two main reasons, historical myths and religious superstitions.”

— Fady Asly

(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic…

— Carl Sagan

“The idea is that human culture as broadly defined--art, politics, technology, religion, and so on--evolves in much the way biological species evolve: new cultural…

— Robert Wright

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

— Rafael Cruz

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too…

— David Pilbeam

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

— Greg Graffin

Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ...…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Rapidly becoming extinct in thename of human sensitivity and modernity are constantly fallingis necessary to save the character that we headed back to ancient…

— Mak_786

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world,…

— Katha Pollitt