Evolution Quotes - Page 3

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

Saying of the Prophet
Understanding
Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Saying of the Prophet
Ink and Blood
The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

Saying of the Prophet
Envy
Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Saying of the Prophet
Humility
Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent

"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze

"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven,
when all they needed to do was look about them,
and embrace that which was already there.

No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult-at least I have found it so-than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?