A collection of proverbs and quotes about evolution.
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All the different life forms that share our planet are our relatives.Paul Nurse
Source: What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.Richard Dawkins
An animal is the way it is because it needs to be.(unknown author)
Both Darwin and Turing claim to have discovered something truly unsettling to a human mind — competence without comprehension.Daniel Dennett
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.Richard Dawkins
Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.Frans de Waal
Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.Yuval Noah Harari
Source: A Brief History of Humankind
Everything is what it is because it got that way.D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Evolution is a process that depends on amplifying things that almost never happen.Daniel Dennett
Evolution is cleverer than you are.Leslie Orgel
Orgel's Second Rule
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.John Morley
Evolution is now universally accepted as a fact by thinking peopleRichard Dawkins
Evolution never looks to the future.Richard Dawkins
Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.Jerry Coyne
Given infinite time, or infinite opportunities, anything is possible.Richard Dawkins
Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change.American Humanist Association
Source: Humanism and Its Aspirations
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.Charles Darwin
I'm not getting old. I'm evolving.Keith Richards
If my genes don't like it, they can jump in the lake.Steven Pinker
Source: How the mind works
Is there an evolution of evolvability?Richard Dawkins
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.Arthur C. Clarke
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.Stephen Hawking
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.Leon C. Megginson
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.Richard Dawkins
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.Richard Dawkins
Natural selection is anything but random.Richard Dawkins
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.Richard Dawkins
People can believe in evolution without understanding it, and vice versa.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Slow, gradual, cumulative natural selection is the ultimate explanation for our existence.Richard Dawkins
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.Stephen Hawking
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.Charles Darwin
Source: The Descent of Man
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.Vladimir Nabokov
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.Albert Schweitzer
The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life, while the fox is only running for his dinner.Richard Dawkins
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.Richard Dawkins
We are a very, very unusual species.Richard Dawkins
We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.Yuval Noah Harari
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
What is the evolutionary value of blushing?Frans de Waal
