Evolution

(157 votes)   An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(110 votes)   It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(99 votes)   Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
1881-1955, French Christian Mystic, Author

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(94 votes)   Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(73 votes)   The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(54 votes)   Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(51 votes)   We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

W. Winwood Reade
1838-1875, American Writer

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(47 votes)   Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(46 votes)   It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

Havelock Ellis
1859-1939, British Psychologist

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(45 votes)   One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Malcolm Muggeridge
1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(35 votes)   It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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(31 votes)   Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

W. S. Gilbert
1836-1911, British Librettist

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(29 votes)   Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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(27 votes)   The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(24 votes)   After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it ''The Amazing Professor.'' The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.

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