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  The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Health, Theory Of Evolution, Inspire

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.300, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Lying, Men, Doubt

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• Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Atheist, Philosophy, Stupid

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

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  Ram Dass

  Levels, Be Here Now, Self Awareness

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.215, Harmony

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• The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion....The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational.

  Louis T. Moore

  Special, Alternatives, Paleontology

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• The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, House, Soul

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “By An Evolutionist”

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• The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Foundation, Adaptation

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• 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

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• Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Men, Monkeys, Evolution Of Man

  Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.548, Penguin UK

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• Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

  Karl Popper

  Research, Facts, Metaphysical

  "Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography". Book by Karl Popper, 1976.

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• I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Children, Thinking

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• In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

  Bela Bartok

  Art, Development, Matter

  "Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening". Book by Joseph Machlis, 1955.

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• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

  Germaine Greer

  Class, Charming, Died

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• I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fashion, Believe, Might

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.401, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

  John McCain

  Believe, Sunset, Hands

  "John McCain on Education". 2007 GOP primary debate, at Reagan library, hosted by MSNBC, www.issues2000.org. May 3, 2007.

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• It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).

  Richard Dawkins

  Stupid, Believe, Ignorant

  "Should Science Speak to Faith? (Extended version)". Interview with Lawrence M. Krauss, www.scientificamerican.com. June 19, 2007.

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• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

  Walter Gilbert

  Inheritance, Schemes, Humans

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• Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

  George Wald

  Death, Science, Long

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• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

  Mario Puzo

  Real, Stupid, Thinking

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• Evolution is a tinkerer.

  Francois Jacob

  "No Engineer Would Have Designed the Human Brain the Way It Is". bigthink.com.

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• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

  Charles Darwin

  Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

  James D. Watson

  Religious, Science, Theory Of Evolution

  James D. Watson (1970). “Molecular Biology of the Gene”

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• Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

  Lord Kelvin

  Strong, Lying, Intelligent

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• The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Brain, Needs

  "The Ghost in the Machine". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1967.

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