Evolution Quotes

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressiv...

When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason t...

Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind ...

Are we being good ancestors?

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction an...

When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are als...

The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individual...

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intel...

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

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species w...

I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only ...

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescui...

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that afte...

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the bes...

The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common hi...

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been sel...

Третье великое препятствие человеческого самопознания — по крайней мере в нашей западной культуре — ...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in...

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide...

Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution o...

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch brea...

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ...

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboratio...

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that n...

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been ap...

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...

The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attrac...

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstance...

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) ...

Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to las...

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on ...

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no othe...

There is a neat economic explanation for the sexual division of labour in hunter-gatherers. In terms...

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psycholog...

Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for ou...

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands t...

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth...

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt...

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one depend...

For great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind...

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith...

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible...

Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conserv...

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution doe...

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the w...

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at t...

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with...

A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees n...

The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in ano...

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a gal...

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the st...

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and catal...

The idea that you have to avoid teaching evolution or pretend you're not teaching it is unique in th...

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, ...

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to i...

If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be...

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah som...

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a nor...

The principle chore of brains is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organi...

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Our ancestors lived in groups of no more than a few hundred people, and those on the other side of a...

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper...

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the diff...

Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is frei...

One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of ...

I approach the creation-evolution dispute not as a scientist but as a problem of law, which means am...

A second point that caught my attention was that the very persons who insist upon keeping religion a...

Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because t...

In the end, only the truth will survive.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immedi...

(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which ...

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought o...

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a pai...

Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of y...

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the r...

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the speci...