Darwinian Revolution Quotes & Sayings

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path. — Les Brown

The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.] — George Gaylord Simpson

The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn't what was originally intended. — Terry Pratchett

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer. — Larry Bird

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question. — Stephen Jay Gould

Society doesn't have values. People have values. — Milton Friedman

Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth. — Stephen Jay Gould

Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi? — J.G. Ballard

If that's all you came to talk about, you know where the exit is. Or should I reacquaint you with the street, butt first? (Terri) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I will close my eyes and leap. — Mary Anne Radmacher