Evolution Quotes

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. (Vladimir Nabokov)
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. View quote
Graham Greene
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. View quote
Ernst Mayr
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. View quote
Steven Wright
No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed. View quote
Marvin Minsky
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. View quote
Richard Bach
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it. (Erich Fromm)
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. View quote
Béla Bartók
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. View quote
Thomas Edison
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. View quote
Albert Einstein
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. View quote
Johannes V. Jensen
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Natural Selection is not evolution. View quote
Ronald Fisher
Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness. View quote
Ann Druyan
Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case. View quote
Simon Conway Morris
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution. (Bill Hicks)
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation. View quote
Ernst Mayr
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. View quote
Havelock Ellis
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? View quote
Milton Berle