Biology Quote by Michael Polanyi

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

— Walter Lang

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

— John Ambrose Fleming

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While…

— Thomas Berry

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

— Steven Pinker

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

— Al Gore

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

— Ray Kurzweil

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.”

— Edward O. Wilson

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire…

— Anonymous

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own…

— John Maynard Smith

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just…

— Mary Midgley

“The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr