Isaac Asimov Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Religious, Atheist

  "Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

• And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Brain, Three

• The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.

  Isaac Asimov

  Taken, Years, Matter

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective”, Doubleday Books

• Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Science, Evolution

• However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

  Isaac Asimov

  Strong, Philosophical, Army

• Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high

  Isaac Asimov

  Army, Night, Evolution

• The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

  Isaac Asimov

  Engineering, Design, Progress

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The beginning and the end”, Pocket

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