1,799 Quotes About Evolution

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)