Richard K. Morgan Quotes

Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

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

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

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

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

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

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

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

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

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.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.