Anthony Hopkins Quotes

Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.

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

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

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.

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

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.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

It’s all right that you do not understand my Theory of Relativity. I do not understand your Theory of Normalcy.

The theory of evolution is quite rightly called the greatest unifying theory in biology. The diversity of organisms, similarities and differ- ences between kinds of organisms, patterns of distribution and behavior, adaptation and interaction, all this was merely a bewildering chaos of facts until given meaning by the evolutionary theory.

I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

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.

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.