Quotes About Evolution

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Science advances funeral by funeral

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.

Man's Place in Nature.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.