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• Evolution is a tinkerer.

  Francois Jacob

  Topics in Evolution

• The resurrection – revival of the fittest; the world to come – supernatural selection.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Evolution

• Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It’s simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

  David Brenner

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Products

• This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Topics in Compromise, Evolution

• Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

  Patrick Buchanan

  Topics in Children, Evolution

• People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don’t understand about that nonsense. It’s like, all instruments are there to use all the time.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in People, Innovations

• Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Topics in Evolution, Knowledge, Nature

  Tags in World, Advance

• A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Idea

• 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

  Topics in Evolution, Nature

  Tags in Idealism

• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it’s one of the most charming things about them.

  Germaine Greer

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Definition

• In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

  George Wald

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Invention

• Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Topics in Evolution

• The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Lies

• Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

  George G. Simpson

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Paleontology, Evidence

• The fact – not theory – that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

  George G. Simpson

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Popular, Opinion

• In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Mankind

• Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Topics in Evolution

• Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

  Shana Alexander

  Topics in Evolution

• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Humans, Theory

• Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Right