William Jennings Bryan Quotes

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

Fresh knowledge leads to recognition of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis.

The Theory of Evolution has been proved true

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

The Theory of Evolution has had over a million chances to be wrong, but never has been.

I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.