Kenneth R. Miller Quotes

Life is a process of evolution.

We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.

Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time.

People are still very uncomfortable with the idea that humans are not specially created species. I believe we are a fantastic species. But we are not created specially. That's very hard for people to accept in their day-to-day routine.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.

There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms.

Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation. If you think about it, before Darwin, we hadn't the foggiest idea of how we came into being. Now we do. It's still such an exciting idea that it is well worth everybody understanding it.

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

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

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.