“ Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ”
- James D. Watson- Copy
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“ There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why. ”
- Jane Goodall- Copy
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“ If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. ”
- Judith Hayes- Copy
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“ The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. ”
- Richard Dawkins- Copy
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“ Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. ”
- Richard Dawkins- Copy
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“ Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ”
- Anthony J. D’Angelo- Copy
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“ There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
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“ All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ”
- Charles Sanders Peirce- Copy
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“ Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. ”
- John Morley- Copy
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“ God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ”
- Konrad Lorenz- Copy
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“ Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily — and perhaps most tellingly — described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit. ”
- Joseph A. Schumpeter- Copy
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“ Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ”
- James D. Watson- Copy
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“ I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. ”
- Vicente Fox- Copy
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“ For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined. ”
- Quintus Curtius Rufus- Copy
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“ Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord — "Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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