Evolution Quotes

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But am...

All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct ...

If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolu...

Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our...

Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our...

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that ...

Evolution never looks to the future.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which...

A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroqu...

The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fai...

I am fascinated by the evolution of language, and how local versions diverge to become dialects like...

Dan Nilsson even remarks of compound eyes that ‘It is only a small exaggeration to say that evolutio...

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

[W]e can calculate our way into regions of miraculous improbability far greater than we can imagine ...

The arms race between [predators] and [prey] is asymmetric, in which success on either side is felt ...

The long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual...

What we can imagine as plausible is a narrow band in the middle of a much broader spectrum of what i...

[W]e may now be on the threshold of a new kind of genetic takeover. DNA replicators built 'survival ...

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a...

Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi...

[W]e may now be on the threshold of a new kind of genetic takeover. DNA replicators built 'survival ...

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th...

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the win...

Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workabl...

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer...

That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the ...

When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldan...

Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by ...

Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could...

In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canop...

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still ove...

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would ...

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and conti...

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped liv...

We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always...

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Ev...

Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there i...

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably ...

What, after all, is so special about genes? The answer is that they are replicators. The laws of phy...

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

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

The essential quality that an entity needs, if it is to become an effective gene vehicle, is this. I...

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known...

It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again, and remind ourselves ...

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narr...

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...

Рассмотрим представление о Боге. Мы не знаем, как оно возникло в мимофонде. Возможно, оно возникало ...

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and withou...

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what ...

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...