Quotes about Evolution

Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with 'em, and then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.

I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all-fours, or had eyes in one's knees, it would be a lot more practical.

A zebra does not change its spots.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.