Evolution famous quotes
06-24-2025
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It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
-- A. E. Wilder-Smith -
In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.
-- Abdellatif Laabi -
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
-- African Spir -
...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.
-- Al Gore -
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
-- Alan Feduccia -
Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.
-- Albert Hofmann -
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
-- Alex Grey -
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity,
-- Alice Bailey -
We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.
-- Amit Goswami -
all the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution ...
-- Anais Nin -
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
-- Anjelica Huston -
Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.
-- Ann Coulter -
I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.
-- Ann Coulter -
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
-- Annie Besant -
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,
-- Antony Flew -
There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.
-- Arthur Keith -
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.
-- Arthur Keith -
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
-- Arthur Peacocke -
The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.
-- August Weismann -
The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution.
-- Azim Premji -
I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution.
-- B. B. Warfield -
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
-- B. F. Skinner -
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
-- Ben Stein -
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
-- Benjamin Carson -
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
-- Bill Hicks -
Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
-- Bill Nye -
I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.
-- Bill Walton -
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.
-- Bob Waterston -
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.
-- Bob Waterston -
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
-- Boris Sidis -
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
-- Boris Sidis -
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
-- Brian Eno -
I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?
-- Brock Lesnar -
We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.
-- Caitlin Moran -
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
-- Carl Joachim Friedrich -
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
-- Carrie Snow -
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
-- Charles Darwin -
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
-- Charles Darwin -
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
-- Charles Darwin -
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
-- Charles Darwin -
Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.
-- Charles Hard Townes -
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
-- Charles Lapworth -
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
The next evolution of content marketing is not more content; it's better distribution.
-- Chris Penn -
Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.
-- Clare Bowen -
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.
-- Clement Greenberg -
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
-- Colson Whitehead -
Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
-- Damien Fahey -
Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.
-- Dan Millman -
I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
-- Daniel Boulud -
It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.
-- Daniel J. Solove -
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.
-- Daniel Levitin -
Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
-- David Attenborough -
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition,
-- David Buss -
The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.
-- David C.H. Austin -
The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.
-- David Deutsch -
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
-- David Koepp -
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
-- David Quammen -
Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.
-- David Wilcock -
If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
-- Dean Falk -
The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.
-- Debbie Ford -
You are designed to reinvent and re-create yourself, over and over again. And, you are here-whether you want to acknowledge it or not; whether you even know it or not-for the evolution of your own soul.
-- Debbie Ford -
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
-- Dee Hock -
The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.
-- Donella Meadows -
If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting.
-- Dorothy Maclean -
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.
-- Douglas J. Futuyma -
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
-- Edmund Beecher Wilson -
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.
-- Edward Humes -
Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.
-- Erasmus Darwin -
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.
-- Erasmus Darwin -
The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.
-- Eric Church -
The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.
-- Ernest MacBride -
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In the end, however, the species is temporary; it has no "eternal life." After existing for a certain period, it either dies or is converted by modification into other forms.
-- Ernst Haeckel -
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
-- Ernst Mayr -
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
-- Ernst Mayr
