Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.

John Ambrose Fleming

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

Phyllis Schlafly

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

Pope Francis

Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.

John Henry Newman

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

John Maynard Smith

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Gary L. Francione

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

Stephen Jay Gould

The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Gregg Harris

He is the only mayor that ever sent pink slips to cops.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Suzanne Pleshette

I work for wardrobe. Whenever I need clothes, I take a job. If I get maybe like six changes, then I'll be a grandmother, I don't care.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...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 Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

Rick James

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.