Quotes about Evolution

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

From natural selection's point of view, status assistance is the main purpose of friendship.

It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.

Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.

from natural selection's point of view, feelings would make great labels for thoughts, labels that say things like "high priority," "medium priority," "low priority.