Evolution Quotes - Page 5

• Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Self, Ego, Stage

  "Stories and Biographies from Iqbal".

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• I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

  Herbert Read

  Doubt, Form, Stage

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

  E. O. Wilson

  Biblical, Religion, Important

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• But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

  Charles Darwin

  Lying, Believe, Theory Of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.162, Graphic Arts Books

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• Evolution is cleverer than you are.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Graphic Design

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• An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, History, Perfection

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.66, 谷月社

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• One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Theory, Stupidest, Western

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• Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Incredibles

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• Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply too far-fetched to be credible. I realized that if I were to embrace Darwinism and its underlying premise of naturalism, I would have to believe that: 1. Nothing produces everything 2. Non-life produces life 3. Randomness produces fine-tuning 4. Chaos produces information 5. Unconsciousness produces consciousness 6. Non-reason produces reason....The central pillars of evolutionary theory quickly rotted away when exposed to scrutiny.

  Lee Strobel

  Life, Believe, Years

  Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.355, Harper Collins

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• Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

  James Lovelock

  Inspirational, Dance, Environment

  "Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist". Book by James Lovelock, Oxford University Press, 2000.

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• Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Earth, Courses, Whole

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• The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

  Leon Trotsky

  Nature, Taken, Men

  Leon Trotsky (1980). “The History of the Russian Revolution”, Anchor Foundation

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• 'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Simple, Creation Science

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• Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Faith, Religious, Mistake

  "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution". "The American Biology Teacher", Volume 35, (pp. 125-129), March 1973.

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• The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

  George Santayana

  Science, Progress, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.106, Рипол Классик

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• When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Long, Special

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.254, Graphic Arts Books

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• I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.

  Jonas Salk

  Philosophy, Thinking, Progress

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.

  George Wald

  Special, Generations, Alternatives

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• One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.

  George Wald

  Believe, Tasks, Generations

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• Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

  Richard Leakey

  Father, Paris, Skulls

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• 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

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• Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Law, Knowing

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• 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

  Bird, Flight, Modern

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• There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form. This theory can be called the 'general theory of evolution,' and the evidence which supports this is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis.

  Gerald A. Kerkut

  Strong, Theory Of Evolution, Support

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• Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ...and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution today.

  Michael Ruse

  Christian, Alternatives, Today

  "How evolution became a religion: creationists correct?". Article by Michael Ruse, May 13, 2000.

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