EVOLUTION

Related Subjects: Life, Man, Progress, Science

1. There was an ape in days that were earlier;
   Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;
   Centuries more and his thumb gave a twist;
   And he was a man and a Positivist.—Anonymous, Parody on Evolution
   

2. Some call it Evolution,
   And others call it God.—W. H. CARRUTH, Each in His Own Tongue
   

3. Today there isn't a single professor who dares to say what he thinks. Evolution is taught as a "theory" while the Jonah and the whale incident is given as a "fact"; and so on throughout the fields of religion and science.—CLARENCE DARROW
   

4. The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and, is sometimes equally convenient.—DARWIN, Origin of Species
   

5. We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.—DARWIN, Origin of Species
   

6. It has taken God—or Nature, if we will—unknown millions of years of painful struggle to evolve Man, and to raise the human species above that helpless bondage to reproduction which marks the lower animals.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, Little Essays on Love and Virtue
   

7. And striving to be man, the worm
   Mounts through all the spires of form.—EMERSON, May-Day
   

8. Darwinian Man, though well-behaved,
   At best is only a monkey shaved!—W. S. GILBERT, Princess Ida
   

9. It [cosmic radiation] falls on the earth in large quantities, and its powers of destruction are immense. Every second it breaks up about twenty atoms in every cubic inch of our atmosphere, and millions of atoms in each of our bodies. It has been suggested that this radiation, falling on germ-plasm, may produce the spasmodic biological variations which the modern theory of evolution demands; it may have been cosmic radiation that turned monkeys into men.—SIR JAMES JEANS, The Mysterious Universe
   

10. Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law.—JOHN MORLEY, On Compromise
    

11. Every man of us has all the centuries in him.—JOHN MORLEY, Life of Gladstone
    

12. To John Thomas Scopes and
    Other Courageous Teachers of the United States
    Who elect to face squarely the issue that
    The youth of America should be
    Freely taught the truth of evolution and the
    Fact that this great law of living nature
    Is consistent with the highest ideals
    Of religion and conduct.—HENRY F. OSBORN, Dedication: Evolution and Religion in Education
    

13. If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.—HERBERT SPENCER, Principles of Biology
    

14. There must be, one cannot help thinking, some evolutionary urge or nisus, élan, or impulse, rather subtler than has been yet analyzed into either mechanical or chemical or biological terms. I mean nothing mystical, but something more than tendencies to aggregate, to colloidify, to incorporate, to grow, to multiply, and so on, with all the involved catalysts, hormones and organisers—I mean a psychical urge, the subjective side of endeavour.—SIR ARTHUR THOMPSON
    

15. I am an anti-Darwin intellectual:
    The man that says any nice young boy or gal
    Is a descendant of the ape
    Shall never from Hell's fire escape.—W. W. WOOLLCOTT