Evolution Quotes

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

I doubt evolution is real.

The car is undoubtedly quicker and more balanced. The traction and braking can still be improved a bit but there's been a good evolution already from three weeks ago.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.

With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

you just took on five million years of evolution again

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

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

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

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

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.

For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take it back. The whole thing is a disaster.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.