Evolution Quotes

“I'd lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins.”

“Man is a transitional being. He is not final.”

“Although Darwin’s mechanism—natural selection working on variation—might explain many things, I do not believe it explains molecular life.”

“We are all just puppets dancing on the strings of our genes and memes.”

“The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.”

“The game has changed so much. It's a passing league now.”

“I confidently expect that in the future we shall have less debate about the derivation of species, and more observation.”

“The most important thing for me is to continue to evolve and change. I never want to repeat myself.”

“Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.”

“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”

“I became a confirmed believer in the theory of the origin of species.”

“Darwin's dangerous idea is that design can emerge from utter mindlessness, from mindless, purposeless, algorithmic processes.”

“Evolution is not a closed logic, but an open game.”

“We are more of a fish than a human being for the first two months.”

“What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built up, bit by bit, over billions of years.”

“I have read your book with more pain than pleasure. Parts of it I admired greatly; parts I laughed at till my sides were almost sore; other parts I read with absolute sorrow, because I think them utterly false and grievously mischievous.”

“In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.”

“We are meme machines.”

“Would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament...”

“Evolutionary biologists have failed to realize that they work with two more or less incommensurable domains: that of information and that of matter.”