There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling1 in it.

　　Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

　　Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire2 adherence3 to religious principles.

　　James D. Watson (1928 - )

　　There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic4 because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe5, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

　　Jane Goodall (1934 - )

　　If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork6 theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

　　Judith Hayes

　　The theory of evolution by cumulative7 natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity8.

　　Richard Dawkins (1941 - )

　　Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

　　Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)

　　My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

　　Steven Wright (1955 - )

　　It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly9 involves a constant remodelling10 of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications11 effected shall be upward or downward.

　　Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)