Biology Quote by Thomas Huxley

To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of…

— Henry Lipson

There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic…

— Gerald A. Kerkut

The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the…

— Stephen Hawking

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials…

— John Polkinghorne

The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual…

— John Desmond Bernal

The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big…

— Fred Hoyle

A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin…

— Donald C. Peattie

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know,…

— Jeffrey Dahmer

“One reason I find anthropic reasoning troublesome is that no one yet knows what might be essential to any possible form of life or…

— Lisa Randall

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

— John Ambrose Fleming

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

— Paul Davies