Most Popular Quotations About Evolution
1. When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.
- George Smoot
2. Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
- John Polkinghorne
3. The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
- L. Ron Hubbard
4. Most people hate the idea of evolution because they realize that if it were working properly, they'd been dead.
- Unknown
5. Change is at the very core of evolution and without it, all creatures would look alike and behave the same way.
- Martin Dansky
6. Evolution is most universally accepted among those who understand it, almost universally rejected by those who don't.
- Richard Dawkins
7. If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
- Milton Berle
8. In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding.
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
9. We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
- Bill Hicks
10. Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.
- Keith Henson
11. It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
- Leon C. Megginson
12. All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to definite.
- Charles Sanders
13. Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
14. The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
