Science Quotes

"The nervous system participates in the creation of meaning."

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

"An atheist before Darwin could have said, plausibly, that the visual marks of design in nature were evidence for a creator. But Darwin made a new kind of explanation possible."

"The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 5 billion years after universe began, is a fact."

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

"We are the product of 4 billion years of evolution; there is no reason to expect that the effort required to understand us should be small."

"The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity."

"Science is the poetry of reality."

"Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science."

"The universe is just physics and chemistry and biology."

"The most profound statement ever made about evolution is that it is a fact."

"The selfish gene theory has proven invaluable in explaining many aspects of evolution."

"DNA is a code, but not a blueprint."

"The more you understand the actual science, the stronger is the evidence for the fact of evolution."

"The universe operates according to laws of physics."

"Genes have no foresight; they just replicate."

"Evolution explains the apparent design in nature without invoking a designer."

"We are made of atoms, like the rest of the universe."

"The genome is not a blueprint; it's more like a recipe."

"The history of life is written in DNA."

"Science is a process of discovery, not a dogma."

"The explanatory power of evolution is truly remarkable."

"We share common ancestors with all living things."

"Science is our best tool for understanding reality."

"Evolution is the best explanation for the diversity of life."

"The natural world operates according to understandable laws."

"Science requires humility and openness to evidence."

"The complexity of life is explained by evolution."

"The universe has been evolving for billions of years."

"Science is the best way to understand the world."