Best 1587 quotes in «evolution quotes» category

It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

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

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic soup ever existed on this planet. We may therefore with fairness call this scenario the myth of the pre-biotic soup.

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual completely continuous transitional sequences.

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.

It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.

It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

It's not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased!

It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.

I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.

I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions...

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades.

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

My personal style is a continued evolution. I can see I've had a different style for every different age in the period of my life. It's difficult for me to say what is my style because I change all the time. I change every eight months, it's so weird.

Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Natural selection is not evolution.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.