Herbert Spencer Quotes

Evolution is all about looking forward.

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

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists.

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

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

Evolution never stops or ends. Such a cessation would be cataclysmic catastrophe.

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

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

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

Life is a process of evolution.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

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.

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

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

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

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of 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.