Quotes About Evolution

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for '[intelligent] design.' If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.