Evolution Quotes
The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution
The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.
Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.
This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.
Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.
Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance.
Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
In the biological sense, race does not exist.
We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.
Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.
No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another
In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.
When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.
If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.
Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves.
In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the treatment of the inferior races of mankind.
Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.
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...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.
...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")
In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.
...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.
have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.
Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.
We evolve, that means our life’s purpose and perception changes from time to time because we are a part of an infinitely long chain of evolution which is doomed to death.
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
