Age Quote by Michael Shermer

Why does evolution matter? There is so much about the evolution of life, the development of life on Earth that should rivet the attention…

— Sylvia Earle

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new…

— Bill Nye

“Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, and by accepting–and embracing–the theory of evolution, Christians and…

— Michael Shermer

Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister,…

— Charles Lapworth

My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the…

— Ben Stein

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved…

— Carl Zimmer

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

— Jared Diamond

Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century,…

— Martin Rees

Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation. If you…

— Richard Dawkins

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin’s…

— David Berlinski