Evolution

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

- Charles Robert Darwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. Man remains just the same.

- Gurdjieff Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

- Bertrand Russell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.

- Fred Hampton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

- Eric Hoffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

- W. S. Gilbert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

- Ashley Montague Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The survival of the fittest.

- Herbert Spencer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One revolution is just like one cocktail -- it gets you organized for the next.

- Will Rogers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

- Malcolm Muggeridge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

- Shana Alexander Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Survival of the fittest.

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Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

- Shana Alexander Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

- Henry Louis Mencken Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Life emerged, I suggest, not simple, but complex and whole, and has remained complex and whole ever since not because of a mysterious elan vital, but thanks to the simple, profound transformation of dead molecules into an organization by which each molecule's formation is catalyzed by some other molecule in the organization. The secret of life, the wellspring of reproduction, is not to be found in the beauty of Watson-Crick pairing, but in the achievement of collective catalytic closure. So, in another sense, life complex, whole, emergent is simple after all, a natural outgrowth of the world in which we live.

- Stuart Kauffman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

- Ronald Aylmer Fisher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes