Quotes About Evolution

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.