Goldwin Smith Quotes

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

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

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.

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

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

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

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

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.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

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

Fresh knowledge leads to recognition of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis.

What humans can't engineer, evolution can.

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.

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

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

Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.

We completely reject the theory of evolution.

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

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.