Quotes About Evolution

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.