Evolution Quotes - Page 7

• Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Health, Science, Light

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• For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

  Otto Rank

  Mother, Children, Self

  Otto Rank Association, Otto Rank (1976). “Journal”

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• In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

  Herbert Read

  Coherence, Degrees, Social

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

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• New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.

  Pope John Paul II

  Theory Of Evolution, Discovery, Religion

  "Popeular Science" by Phil Plait, www.slate.com. October 29, 2014.

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• Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

  John Maynard Smith

  Mathematics, Natural, Natural History

  John Maynard Smith (1988). “Games, sex and evolution”, Prentice Hall

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• Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the only thing about which we can have any knowledge. It follows that nature had to do its own creating, and that the means of creation must have included any role for God.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Philosophy, Mean, Creating

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• Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

  Michael Polanyi

  Theory Of Evolution, Creative, Existence

  "Transcendence And Self-Transcendence". Book by Michael Polanyi, 1970.

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• This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Effort, Java, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

  Richard Dawkins

  Order, Flying, Tests

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Natural selection is not evolution.

  Ronald Fisher

  Natural, Natural Selection, Selection

  "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1930.

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• Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

  Charles Darwin

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• That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

  Al Jarreau

  Thinking, Soul, Trying

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• The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

  Harold Morowitz

  Size, Chance, Form

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• Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.

  Louis Agassiz

  Simple, Reality, Thinking

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Confidence, Atheist

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

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• Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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• The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Intelligent, Alternatives

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• If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Years, Effort

  "Mein Kampf".

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• Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Religion, Nonsense, Claims

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Law, Theory Of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Acceptance, Science

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Powerful, Animal, Mma

  FaceBook post by Georges St-Pierre from May 25, 2011

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Loyalty, Peace, Rhyming

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Nonsense, Nonsensical

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.33, Vintage

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