Eugenie Scott Quotes

#1. Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

Eugenie Scott

#2. Blind assumption is the easiest way to disguise the truth.

P.D. Griffith

#3. I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, "We shouldn't be teaching creationism." Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

Eugenie Scott

#4. This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

Gary Sheffield

#5. Every day I think, 'Gosh, you look a bit tired today,' and it's just recently occurred to me that it's not that I'm tired, it's that this is the way I look now.

Liane Moriarty

#6. Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

Eugenie Scott

#7. I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

Morgan Freeman

#8. You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Eugenie Scott

#9. ...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...

John Geddes

#10. People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.

Eugenie Scott

#11. I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

Eugenie Scott

#12. Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.

Eugenie Scott

#13. The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Jacob Bronowski

#14. It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.

Craig Kelly

#16. When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.

Dan Jenkins

#17. Hey I think the urban meyer rule is in effect right now, When the going gets tough..QUIT.

Maurice Jones-Drew

#18. We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Ezra Klein

#19. You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

Thomas Otway

#20. Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

Eugenie Scott

#21. In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

Eugenie Scott

#22. No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

John Connolly

#23. Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

Eugenie Scott

#24. Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something ...

Zach Braff

#25. I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

Eugenie Scott

#26. There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.

Eugenie Scott