Famous Quotes & Sayings

What it's been is the evolution of terminology. A little wedge here, then in Kansas, South Carolina, Utah, and all over the United States. That's Discovery's modus operandi.

E. O. Wilson

Theology made no provision for evolution.

Daniel Dennett

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

Ronald Fisher

Natural selection is not evolution.

Sri Aurobindo

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

Steven Pinker

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.

Steven Weinberg

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

Raf Simons

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

Kin Hubbard

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

Michael Behe

Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

Michael Behe

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Matt Ridley

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

Maria Montessori

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

Martin Luther

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

Martin Luther

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

Martin Luther

It is God who creates effects and preserves all things through God's almighty power.

Nat Friedman

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

Michael Crichton

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position.

Jeffrey Steingarten

Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Christopher Hitchens

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

Jello Biafra

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Eric Church

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

We don't get pushed around by anybody. (The one-dimensional fighter) is a player who's losing his niche in hockey because of the evolution of the game.

Steve Willis

You keep showing up, you see the process, the evolution.

Herbie Hancock

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

Herbert Spencer

We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.

Ibrahim Babangida

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

The overall quality of women's golf is getting better, ... It's a natural evolution that these players are better.

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.