Ancestry Quote by Philip Kitcher

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

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

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

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

Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of…

— Gregory Bateson

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

— Naval Ravikant

I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can…

— Audra McDonald

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives…

— Kenneth R. Miller

I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how…

— Richard Dawkins

Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While…

— Jacques Monod

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact,…

— Alan I. Leshner