These evolution quotes will inspire you. Evolution, is descent with modification from preexisting species or the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging evolution quotes, evolution sayings, and evolution proverbs.
Best Evolution Quotes
- “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ~ Milton Berle
- “Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” ~ Bill Hicks
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“The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved” ~ Charles Darwin
- “The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.” ~ Fred Hoyle
- “The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with certainty will never happen, no matter how much time is allotted and no matter how many conceivable opportunities could exist for the event to take place.” ~ Emile Borel
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“Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.” ~ Arthur Keith
- “A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp…..moreover, for the most part these “experts” have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully.” ~ Wolfgang Smith
- “I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.” ~ George Wald
- “Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.” ~ Duane Gish
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“The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.” ~ William Bell
- “Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.” ~ Michael Ruse
- “The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000)…. It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.” ~ Fred Hoyle
- “To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.” ~ Pierre-Paul Grasse
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“My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.” ~ Patty Duke
- “The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.” ~ Henry Adams
- “Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- “Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole
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“A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.” ~ Trofim Lysenko
- “Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.” ~ Mark Twain
- “All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Theology made no provision for evolution.” ~ E. O. Wilson
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“Evolution is a fairy tale for adults” ~ Paul Lemoine
- “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
- “Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.” ~ Talcott Parsons
- “Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.” ~ James D. Watson
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“Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us… the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.” ~ Lord Kelvin
- “All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.” ~ William Jennings Bryan
- “An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.” ~ Hosni Mubarak
- “The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is – a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.” ~ Herbert Spencer , Evolution quotes change
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“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.” ~ Louis Agassiz
- “Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.” ~ Richard Dawkins
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“The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, “Am I your debtor?” And the Lord–“Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould
- “Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn’t even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.” ~ Karl Popper
- “Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.” ~ Usher
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“All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.” ~ Charles Sanders Peirce
- “It’s the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they’re all equal, and that all creatures are equal.” ~ Tim LaHaye
- “The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.” ~ Arthur Koestler
- “Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.” ~ Usher
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“Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.” ~ Shana Alexander
- “Till o’er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.” ~ Erasmus Darwin
- “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.” ~ Ram Dass
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“Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.” ~ Pat Buchanan
- “We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. …Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.” ~ Pierre-Paul Grasse
- “The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion….The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational.” ~ Louis T. Moore
- “The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000…. The size of this figure is truly staggering since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!” ~ Harold Morowitz
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“Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.” ~ Albert Schweitzer , Human evolution quotes
- “If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.” ~ Adolf Hitler
- “Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.” ~ John Ambrose Fleming
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“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” ~ Theodosius Dobzhansky
- “Natural selection is not evolution.” ~ Ronald Fisher
- “The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould
- “Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.” ~ Terry Pratchett
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“Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.” ~ W. S. Gilbert
- “That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.” ~ Al Jarreau
- “The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.” ~ Richard Dawkins
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“Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.” ~ Jimmy Swaggart
- “I’m still my parent’s child, I’m still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.” ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- “In art, there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.” ~ Bela Bartok
