evolution quotes

It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

- Annie Dillard
  Of self-consciousness. Pilgrim at  Tinker Creek, ch.6.

The element of chance†is expelled. Nobody would now waste his time in theorizing about a fortuitous concourse of atoms.We have so far spelled out the history of creation as to see that all has been done in strict accordance with law. The method has been the method of evolution, and the more we study it the more do we discern in it intelligible coherence.

-John Fiske
  Through Nature to God.

The evolution of culture issynonymous with theremoval of ornament from utilitarian objects.

- Adolf Loos
Trotzdem1900^1930.

No philosopher now looks for anything but the gradual evolutionoftheneworder fromtheold†Historyshows us no example of the sudden substitutions of Utopian and revolutionary romance.

- SidneyJames Webb
  Fabian Essays.