Terrence Howard Quotes

The Theory of Evolution has been proved true

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

Natural selection is not evolution.

At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.

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

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

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

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

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

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

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

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

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

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

I don't think we came from monkeys. I think that's ridiculous. I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.

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.

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.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism.

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