Terry Pratchett Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Fun, Writing

• Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

  Terry Pratchett

  Queens, Fate, Play

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• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moral Fiber, Evolution Of Man, Trial And Error

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

• There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Gun, Land

• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Science, Errors

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

• Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Eye, Angel

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.150, Random House

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