Evolution Quotes

"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "Natural selection is anything but random." "It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work." "We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes." "When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world" "Civilization is, among other things, the process by which animals are turned into men." "I want to change and grow more radical with age." "Everything is gestation and then bringing forth." "We control the world basically because we can cooperate better than any other animal" "Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same" "Evolution is the single greatest force in the universe; it’s the only thing that’s permanent, and it drives everything." "Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate " "Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it."