Evolution Quotes & Sayings

Evolution Quotes & Sayings

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. - George Bernard Shaw



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



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



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



Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant. - Fredrich August von Hayek



There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too. - Dean William Ralph Inge



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



Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. - Lord Alfred Tennyson



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