Quotes About Evolution

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.