Evolution Quotes - Page 9

• Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Origin Of Life, Theory Of Evolution

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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• We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Sleep, Reality

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• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  H. G. Wells

  Successful, Atheism, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.68, H. G. Wells

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• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

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• Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

  Pat Buchanan

  Education, Children, Parent

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• Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

  Usher

  Break Up, Heartbroken, Breakup

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• All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Vague, Definite, Knows

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner (1992). “Reasoning and the logic of things: the Cambridge conferences lectures of 1898”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

  Tim LaHaye

  Atheist, Lying, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

  Usher

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

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• Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

  Shana Alexander

  Men, Interesting, Watches

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Teaching, America, Suffering

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• An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Egypt, Heritage, Strange

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• The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ideas, Atheism, Matter

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “First Principles: Great Philosopher”, p.304, 北戴河出版

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• What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

  Francis Galton

  Nature, Kindness, Lying

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• If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Orson Welles

  Funny, Life, Girlfriend

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

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• I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

  George Wald

  Believe, Generations, Want

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• The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.

  Fred Hoyle

  Origin Of Life, Boeing 747, Junk

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• I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

  Charles Darwin

  God, Garden, Thinking

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• Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

  Michael Ruse

  Creation Science, Today, Stills

  "Is Darwinism a Religion?". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2011.

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  My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

  Patty Duke

  Depression, Recovery, Swings

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.289, Bantam

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• Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

  Michael Behe

  Authority, Bluster, Claims

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

  Bill Hicks

  Creativity, Creative

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• To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Fashion, Believe, Facts

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• A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Ideas, Theory Of Evolution, Principles

  "Soviet Biology". Report by Lysenko to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, www.marxists.org. 1948.

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