For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. – Margaret Chan
We’re not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future. – Nat Friedman
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There’s almost no food that isn’t genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. – Nina Fedoroff
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. – Nina Fedoroff
It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation. – John Burroughs
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish. – Michael Shermer
All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming ‘reality.’ – Piet Mondrian
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. – Phyllis Schlafly
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. – John Polkinghorne
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. – James Lovelock
I’ve always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I’ve always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness. – Iyanla Vanzant
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. – John Polkinghorne
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths. – Kevin Kelly
What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God’s Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years. – Ken Ham
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. – Kenneth R. Miller
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. – John M. Ford
As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial. – Kenneth R. Miller
There’s been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren’t even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact. – Ken Ham
Our young people – and adults – should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution. – Ken Ham
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. – John Ambrose Fleming
Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee. – Kurt Vonnegut
The reason for natural selection’s great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations. – John Tyler Bonner
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. – Kevin Kelly