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"Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching."

Baudrillard, Jean on evolution    Share


"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop."

Conklin, Edward on evolution    Share

"The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories."

Disraeli, Benjamin on evolution    Share

"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on evolution    Share

"It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution."

Ellis, Havelock on evolution    Share

"Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved."

Gilbert, W. S. on evolution    Share

"God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution."

Greene, Graham on evolution    Share

"The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival."

Hoffer, Eric on evolution    Share

"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."

Lorenz, Konrad on evolution    Share

"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."

Mencken, H. L. on evolution
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"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."

Morley, John on evolution    Share

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"One of the stupidest theories of Western life."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on evolution    Share

"All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite."

Peirce, Charles Sanders on evolution    Share

"We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act."

Reade, W. Winwood on evolution    Share

"Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance."

Russell, Bertrand on evolution    Share

"It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far."

Skinner, Cornelia Otis on evolution    Share

"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."

Spencer, Herbert on evolution    Share

"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself."

Trotsky, Leon on evolution    Share

"Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D."

Unknown, Source on evolution    Share

"Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages."

Unknown, Source on evolution
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"Two million years from now the scientists can start a row by claming that the creatures of that period descended from us."

Unknown, Source on evolution    Share

"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."

Wald, George on evolution    Share

"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning."

Wells, H.G. on evolution    Share

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"The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution."

Adams, John on evolution    Share

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

Adams, John on evolution
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

Arendt, Hannah on evolution    Share

"In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake."

Aristotle on evolution    Share

"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."

Aristotle on evolution
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"Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out."

Azuela, Mariano on evolution
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."

Bambara, Toni Cade on evolution    Share

"Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment."

Bierce, Ambrose on evolution    Share

"So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks."

Bonom, Samuel on evolution    Share

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood."

Brown, John Mason on evolution    Share

"I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there."

Butnariu, Viorica on evolution    Share

"The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart."

Byron, Lord on evolution    Share

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