Biologist Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

— John Ambrose Fleming

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.

— Merle Haggard

If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is…

— Niles Eldredge

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how…

— Michael Crichton

Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

— Noam Chomsky

There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't…

— Eugenie Scott

“When there are over 211,000 homicide cases since 1980 that still remain unsolved in America, and the same scientists who claim that they can…

— Calvin W. Allison

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

— Naomi Wolf

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

— Gero Miesenbock

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in…

— Victor J. Stenger