David Attenborough Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Men, Years

• This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

  David Attenborough

  Men, Views, Years

• Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be proved. Well, no, you cannot prove the theory to people who won't believe in it any more than you can prove that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. However, we know the battle happened then, just as we know the course of evolution on earth unambiguously shows that Darwin was right.

  David Attenborough

  Believe, People, Battle

  "How Darwin won the evolution race" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

• As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

  David Attenborough

  Way, World, Evolution

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

• Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

  David Attenborough

  Baby, Eye, Thinking

• It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

  David Attenborough

  Believe, Two, Historical

  "Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

• Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

  David Attenborough

  Light, World, Evolution

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