Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relat — Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth o — Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natur — Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity

An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnish — Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation V2: Or the Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes

The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present d — Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation V2: Or the Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes

...if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, — James Hutton, Investigation of Principles

God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is th — John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy he — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. — Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by — Jacob M. Appel, Scouting for the Reaper

$An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand mil — Richard E. Leakey$

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million y — Charles Galton Darwin, The Next Million Years

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

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