“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.” ShouldReasonEnoughHumanityEvolutionProveEqualIntellectualCapacityUniversalFirmHeritageReservesAnticipateEqual Power Book:Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science Source: Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science
“Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.” ShouldHumanityEvolutionEmphasis Author:Alice Bailey
“As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.” ShouldBelieveReasonDoneStoriesBeautifulReligionModernCreationTheoryEvolutionAccountsSignificantTortureConformityBiblicalGenesisSymbolismTheory Of Evolution Author:Will Durant
“Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.” ShouldSchoolPoliticalTaughtEvolutionEvidenceDnaFossilsControversy Author:Carl Zimmer
“Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.” ShouldMayUseLightUsedReligionAtheismTeachingEvolutionDiscoveryInstrumentsGravityIntroducingElectricityPrecisionUnreasonableTelescopesMicroscopesClausesVelocity Author:Luther Burbank