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Quotes About Evolution

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
~ Will Cuppy
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
~ William Shakespeare
And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
~ William Wordsworth
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
~ Halle Berry
I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.
~ Howard Gossage
Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
~ Leslie Mann
My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
~ Chinua Achebe
It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.
~ Donald McCaig
. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
~ Edward T. Hall
I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
~ Francoise Sagan
... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Man is something that is to be surpassed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
~ Gloria Steinem
If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.
~ Groucho Marx
There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.
~ H. G. Wells
I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.
~ Mark Lawrence
The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...
~ Marshall McLuhan
God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.
~ Michael Crichton
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.
~ Mortimer Collins
Man is a biped without feathers.
~ Plato
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.
~ Robert Briffault