Evolution Quotes

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  If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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  Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

  Richard Dawkins

  Health, Theory Of Evolution, Inspire

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.30, OUP Oxford

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• Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  Talcott Parsons

  Progress, Sometimes

  Talcott Parsons, Peter Hamilton (1985). “Readings from Talcott Parsons”, Chichester [West Sussex] : E. Horwood ; London ; New York : Tavistock Publications

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• There are no shortcuts in evolution.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Health, Science, Inspire

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• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  Unknown

  Aquariums, Theory Of Evolution, Essentials

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• My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Science, Theory Of Evolution

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

  Alan I. Leshner

  Mean, Principles, Belief

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• 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

  Dna, Common, Process

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• I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Hair, Theory Of Evolution

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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• 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

  Quotations

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

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• Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

  Will Rogers

  Teaching, Science, Monkeys

  In 'Saturday Review' 25 August 1962 'A Rogers Thesaurus'

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• You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Artist, Process, Lifelong

  Mary Beth Mckenzie (1987). “Painterly Approach”, Watson-Guptill

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• Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

  Leonard Shlain

  Order, Innovation, Brain

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• In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection -quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Knowledge, Magic

  "Janus: A Summing Up". Book by Arthur Koestler, p. 184-5, 1983.

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• In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Illustration, Justice

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• The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

  Richard Dawkins

  Years, Justice, Mad

  Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong (2005). “The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution”, p.613, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Evolution never looks to the future.

  Richard Dawkins

  Looks, Looking To The Future

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doubt, Doe, Needs

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• Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Views, Brain

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Movement, Moments

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Simple, Cycling

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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• Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards.

  Richard Dawkins

  Years, Long, Generations

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Book, Theory Of Evolution, Dubious

  "Legalism and the Sins of the Church" by L. Roger Sockwell, Xulon Press, (p. 30, 2002.

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• Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Reflection, Psychics

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