Quotes by Evolution If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist? Richard Dawkins evolutionlooksway ...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. Richard Dawkins illusionevolutionfacts Evolution never looks to the future. Richard Dawkins looking-to-the-futureevolutionlooks Have they discovered evolution yet? Richard Dawkins evolution Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program. Richard Dawkins programadultsevolution Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Once this new evolution begins, it will in no necessary sense be subservient to the old. Richard Dawkins ariseevolutionkind I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it. Richard Dawkins accountsevolution In Britain you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that. Richard Dawkins evolutionshouldshould-have The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. Ralph Waldo Emerson routineprogressevolution An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. Ralph Waldo Emerson progressevolutionsteps You are the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist again. Absolutely beautiful Ricky Gervais evolutionbeautifulyears Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution? Rita Mae Brown frogsevolutionthinking The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do. Robert Andrews Millikan doctrineevolutiontrying No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. Robert Briffault evolutionfacesmen Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim. Robert Charles Wilson usedevolutionfire 'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence. Robert A. Heinlein savagesdegreesevolution Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations. Robert Gilpin evolutionimportantwar Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it. Robert Frost barrelsrollingevolution Every problem was once a solution to a previous problem. Robert Mandel solutionsevolutionproblem Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life. Robert M. Pirsig moralevolutionculture«1718192021222324252627»
