Quotes About Evolution

The mind is an evolved computer program.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.