Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

Rather than be afraid of evolution and try to stifle inquiry, people should revel in the joys of knowing and find a serenity and a joy in being a part the rest of life on Earth. Not apart from it, but a part of it.

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution or the word 'species.'

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

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.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

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

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

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

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