Quotes About Evolution

new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Our present biosphere is the outcome of about 4 billion years of evolution, and we can trace cosmic history right back to a Big Bang that happened about 13.7 billion years ago.

The human microbiome in our gut, mouth, skin, and elsewhere, harbors three thousand kinds of bacteria with 3 million distinct genes. (Our own cells struggle by on only eighteen thousand genes or so.)

Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its life span. It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.ad

When Max Planck began studying physics at the University of Munich in 1874, his teacher, Philipp von Jolly, warned him that it was already a mature field, with little more to learn.

Max Planck observed, revolutions in science sometimes have to wait for funerals.

Choice is simply a fanciful shorthand for biological processes we do not yet apprehend.

There is no possible protection from technology except by technology," he wrote. "When you create a new environment with one phase of technology,

Paradoxical as it may seem, the evolution of our income tax has been from a low-rate tax relying for revenue on the high income group to a high-rate tax relying on the middle and lower-middle income groups.

McLuhan, for one, was convinced that all efforts to preserve the old forms of author protection represent backward thinking and are doomed to failure

Various magazine articles have predicted nothing less than the disappearance of the book as it now exists, and pictured the library of the future as a sort of monster computer capable of storing and retrieving the contents of books electronically and xerographically.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too crowded, in an environment we've poisoned with our own-uh-byproducts. Now when this happens to a wild species, or to rats in a lab, the next generation turns out weaker and slower and more timid. This is a defense mechanism.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

Righteousness brings happiness. Wickedness never does. If there were no God, no plan, no law, and no divine order, there would be no reason wickedness would not bring happiness. But it never does. The history of civilization is a testament that hedonism, perversion, brutality, corruption, and wickedness sow seeds of misery, sorrow, and destruction. It is not a quirk of evolution. It is evidence of a divinely appointed plan.12

There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.

You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

But most importantly, by the late '40s, technically trained dancers were plentiful—a far cry from the self-taught hoofers of the '20s and '30s. This was fortunate not only for Pan, whose work demanded highly skilled and versatile dancers,