Evolution Quotes

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the ...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

Our earliest ancestors were descended from primates who thrived for millions of years in a treetop e...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

Our earliest ancestors were descended from primates who thrived for millions of years in a treetop e...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

Our earliest ancestors were descended from primates who thrived for millions of years in a treetop e...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily di...

Our earliest ancestors were descended from primates who thrived for millions of years in a treetop e...

When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, th...

n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open gr...

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...

We’re living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequac...

During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposele...

The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be...

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of ...

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheri...

It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose th...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me ...

Theory of Evolution (Summary)First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the e...

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekind...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into leg...

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of...

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the a...

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your...

I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had m...

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical...

At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murd...

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a ...

Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we ...

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfis...

Many textbooks point out that no animal has evolved wheels and cite the fact as an example of how ev...

Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.”...

Perhaps we should rejoice that people’s emotions aren’t designed for the good of the group. Often th...

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is u...

Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for th...

The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indee...

It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causat...

Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for exa...

Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological ...

Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive ...

People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have m...

George Williams, the revered evolutionary biologist, describes the natural world as “grossly immoral...

This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college sto...

He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There...

From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen a...

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.

Yes, sir, but the Librarian likes bananas, sir.""Very nourishin' fruit, Mr Stibbons.""Yes, sir. Alth...

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended....

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspirin...

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...

We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in t...

I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific wor...

The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding thing...

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women -...

Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of thei...

Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understandi...

They are of the dream time. I don't understand it, I can't say it in words. Everything dreams. The p...

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...

They soon lost interest in Sofya. She was just one more prisoner -with no more idea of her destinati...

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let...

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have u...

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as m...

Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that ...

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committin...

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organ...

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league a...