Quotes About Evolution

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

Eu nu sunt ceea ce ascund, eu sunt ceea ce devin prin voin??

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.

one of the first assemblies of smart molecules had been the crew of that ingenious unit called the gene.† An even grander molecular fusion had been the chromosome—a knottily twisted rope of genes which not only worked together,* but fused so tightly that they formed a massive mega-molecule.

The horizons toward which we can soar are within us, anxious to break free, to emerge from our imaginings, then to beckon us forward into fresh realities. We have a mission to create, for we are evolution incarnate. We are her self-awareness, her frontal lobes and fingertips. We are second generation star stuff come alive. We are parts of something 3.5 billions years old, but pubertal in cosmic time. We are neurons of this planet's interspecies mind.

The world turns, and life changes, the good old days are fantasies-just screened memories.

Michael Ruse's The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979

Stephen Jay Gould's 1981 book The Mismeasure of Man is both amusing and horrifying when it recounts how nineteenth century anthropologists pursued craniometry

David Young, in his excellent book The Discovery of Evolution, strikes just the right note of balance in our interpretation of science; his words can serve as a coda for this chapter:

For full details on the search of scientific literature that turned up one hundred thousand articles with evolution as a key work, see J. R. Staver, "Evolution and Intelligent Design," Science Teacher 70, no. 8 (2003): 32–35.

Colin Patterson's Evolution, second edition (make sure you get the second edition, it is much better than the first) (Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing, 1999).

A superbly written, insightful, and beautifully illustrated history of evolution is David Young's The Discovery of Evolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992

The "four 'F's'" of animal behavior—fleeing, fighting, feeding, and…reproducing—all depend on acquiring information and

A work I failed to mention earlier that gives an excellent overview of the history of evolution, including evolutionary synthesis, is Peter J. Bowler's Evolution: The History of an Idea, third edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.

Jung: we only discover what supports us when everything else we thought supported us doesn't support us anymore.

Nothing can stay the same forever, in business or in life, and counting on the status quo can only lead to grief.

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.

Deux plus deux faisaient-ils quatre au temps des dinosaures?

It's always the same--you get used to one thing, then it changes. Get used to another, and that changes. Over and over. Always the same. O well, the hell with it. It's not important anyway.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Homo sapiens. That's a label we invented for ourselves, of course: Latin for 'wise man'. It may be hoped that we will eventually either evolve into something worthier of that appellation or aspire to an even better one. How about Gens unanima - 'harmonious race' or ' a people of one spirit'?

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.