Quotes About Evolution

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

All significant breakthroughs are break -"withs" old ways of thinking.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.