Evolution Quotes

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

For great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Change lives on the horizon.

Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse........

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

Evolution is a religion

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

That is life's talent. To accept new things.

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

To a good approximation, all species are insects.

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good.

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.'She looked up from her book.'I would hope, though, ' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

Verbal arguments should always be suspect.

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?

Life is chemistry, not biology.

Insularity plus time yields divergence.

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

Where is your water? Know your garden.

Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional.

You don’t have to solve it, only evolve it!

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late.

If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?

We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress.

We do not know how life began.

I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.