Evolution Quotes

"In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced." "One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others." "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind" "Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception" "The process of natural selection is smarter than you are." "Expecting an organism to evolve traits just because they are useful to us is a dangerous kind of anthropocentrism." "Any meaningful understanding of our world must account for the processes of change over time." "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" "Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then." "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction " "We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "Natural selection is anything but random." "It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work." "We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes." "When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world" "Civilization is, among other things, the process by which animals are turned into men." "I want to change and grow more radical with age." "Everything is gestation and then bringing forth."