Evolution Quotes

“An ability to believe in things that weren’t true was a powerful tool.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“Judging from the past, we may safely infer that no one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity.’ - Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation Of
Favoured Race In The Struggle For Life (1859)”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“Human scientists would call this era the Cretaceous—after creta, meaning “chalk”—for its most enduring monuments, constructed by the toiling plankton.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“All the condylarths were doomed to extinction ten million years before the age of mankind. But for now they were in their pomp, top predators of the world forest.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“And if you were part of a group there was always the chance that the predator would take the next guy, not you.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“It was a cold-blooded lottery that paid off often enough to be worthwhile adapting for.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“Even now the blind scalpels of evolution took raw material adapted for a vanished world, and cut and shaped it for the conditions of the new.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“But few birds flew nowadays. Why fly when there was nothing to flee,”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“She was certainly schizophrenic. Perhaps she was no longer sane.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“It wasn't yet a full language. It wasn't even as rich as a creole. But it was a start, and it was growing fast. And in a sense Mother had discovered, not invented, that basic sentence structure.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“But he's proceeding at his own pace. That's the beauty of this project, of course. Johnnie is autonomous. Now that he's up there, he doesn't need anything from the ground. Since he and his sons won't cost us another dime, this is actually a low-budget project.” Joan thought, Sons?”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“There is grandeur in this view of life . . . that . . . from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“death was a termination, an end of existence, and those who had gone were as meaningless as evaporated dew, their very identities lost after a generation.”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution