Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Gary L. Francione

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

Stephen Jay Gould

The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

Eoin Colfer

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Fred Hoyle

The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.

Michael Polanyi

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

George Will

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Henry Rollins

In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.

Mikhail Fradkov

On inflation, the president took note: things are bad.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dee Dee Myers

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Eleanor Clift

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Eliot Spitzer

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Elena Kagan

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Abdul Kalam

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Abraham Lincoln

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

John Davis

No one is hurt, that's the important thing -- remember that.

Charles Phillips

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

Susan Carney

I can't remember when we've had so many three-setters. They just don't give up. They play right to the end.

John Mendel

I can't remember when it wasn't really a rough year.

Phill Laursen

I can't remember really how this started. It just happened.

Jeff Greene

I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

Bill Hancock

From what I remember about Des Moines and its hotels, ... (The metro) will do fine.

Dan Rice

I don't remember voting. What's the difference? It passed.

J. Taylor

I don't remember things about that play, to be honest, ... I think I was in a zone or something.