Quotes About Evolution

I believe that the teaching of evolution and science is best served by promoting the scientific method and scientific knowledge and not by attacking religious views. The latter is a futile, counterproductive batte. However, I also believe, as many denominations have also concluded, that religion is better served by promoting and evolving its respective teachings and theologies, and not by attacking science, which is definitely a losing strategy

Evo Devo has not just provided a critical missing piece of the Modern Synthesis - embryology - and integrated it with molecular genetics and traditional elements such as paleontology. The wholly unexpected nature of some of its key discoveries and the unprecedented quality and depth of evidence it has provided toward settling previously unresolved questions bestow it with a revolutionary character.

If everything in the universe evolves toward increasing disorder, it must have started out in an exquisitely ordered arrangement. This whole chain of logic, purporting to explain why you can't turn an omelet into an egg, apparently rests on a deep assumption about the very beginning of the universe. It was in a state of very low entropy, very high order. Why did our part of the universe pass though a period of such low entropy?

Historically, nature has been very good at surprising us.

Our actual universe evolves to empty space.

As a measurement apparatus interacts with a quantum system, the two become entangled with each other. There are no wave-function collapses or classical realms. The apparatus itself evolves into a superposition, entangled with the state of the thing being observed.

As I've said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn't just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You've got to keep working at that over time.

I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

Progress occurs one apology at a time.

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.