Talcott Parsons Quotes

Life is a process of evolution.

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.

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

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Evolution is all about looking forward.

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

I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?

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

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

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.

If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

Evolution is the idea some people have to explain life without God.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

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

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

There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms.

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

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.

Optimization hinders evolution.

I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by the environment... it's more than just challenging, it can be terrifying. We all struggle, but I think it's important to be there for one another.

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

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