Thomas Huxley Quotes

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

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.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

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

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

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 species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

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

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

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

I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

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

You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart.

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally - in relation to the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

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