Top Evolutionary Quotes
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
Thom Mayne
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
Ernst Mayr
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
Henry M. Morris
The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.
Mitch Kapor
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.
Michael Hutchence
Stephen Jay Gould 
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 
Buzz Aldrin 
Robert Nozick 
Warren Farrell 
Vernor Vinge 
Ernst Mayr 
Michael Hutchence 
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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
Ernst Mayr 
60% of people like this quote
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
Thom Mayne
60% of people like this quote
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
Henry M. Morris
59% of people like this quote
The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.
Mitch Kapor
57% of people like this quote
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
Phillip E. Johnson
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Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.
Michael Hutchence
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge
56% of people like this quote
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
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Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
Phillip E. Johnson
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Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
Steven Pinker
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Popular Evolutionary Authors
R. Buckminster FullerHerbert ReadJames LovelockMarc MaronKeith HensonJim BarksdaleArthur KeithJohn PolkinghorneMichael HutchencePhillip E. JohnsonWarren FarrellVernor VingeThom MayneSteven Pinker
Ernst MayrPaul BergStephen Jay GouldRobert NozickMichael O'DonoghueRalph A. CramKenneth MillerMitch KaporJohn M. SmithJohannes Vilhelm JensenBuzz AldrinHenry M. MorrisErnst Haeckel
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