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Biological Evolution Quotes

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour. John G. D. Clark
Jared Diamond quote: "Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes..."
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. Jared Diamond
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young... Bill Nye
What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible purpose of the engine, and between them man, equally... Evelyn Waugh
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity. Richard Dawkins
Walter Gilbert quote: "The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of..."
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. Walter Gilbert
Theodosius Dobzhansky quote: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Theodosius Dobzhansky
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. E. O. Wilson
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology. Trofim Lysenko
John M. Smith quote: "The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary..."
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. John M. Smith
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. J. Philippe Rushton

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