Evolution Quotes

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.

Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

I live on Earth at present,
and I don’t know what I am.
I know that I am not a category.
I am not a thing—a noun.
I seem to be a verb,
an evolutionary process—
an integral function of the universe.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

This survey of American beliefs showed that Americans, at a rate of between 48 and 51% don’t believe in evolution. Which is, like, half. And of top of that 51% a further 38 to 40% of Americans believe that biological evolution has occurred but believe that it was initiated by, and has since been kind of administered by, um, god, leaving a very small percentage of Americans who are right.

Those who continue to insist that violence can solve our problems will be isolated, quarantined and expelled from the body of the public like a virus. This is all part of the Great Shift we are going through.

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence, rather than their occurrence, which becomes highly improbable.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!

Some call it evolution,
And others call it God.

I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.

As for disgraceful betrayals of wisdom such as the pretense that there is something called "creation science" and we ought to give it equal time in schools with proper science - I'm ashamed to belong to a human race that is so sunk in abject ignorance and willful stupidity.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.

To survive, they themselves will have to plot the obsolescence of what now produces their livelihood