Evolution Trial Quotes

#1. Well, that's not easy to answer when the question is so stupidly put ...

Hans Christian Andersen

#2. I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.
[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

John T. Scopes

#3. The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Carl Sagan

#4. Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Thelonious Monk

#5. A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Jacob M. Appel

#6. I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Just as evolution is a series of trial-and-error experiments, life is full of false starts and inevitable stumbling. The key to success is the ability to extract the lessons out of each of these experiences and to move on with that new knowledge. For

Tina Seelig

#8. Later, they began to explore the secret idea that Deborah shared with all the ill - that she had infinitely more power than the ordinary person and was at the same time also his inferior.

Joanne Greenberg

#9. Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

Ringo Starr

#10. Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

Jane Taylor

#11. Like that their dreams were set. They promised to push each other, to never settle for anything but the place where their hearts led.

Karen Kingsbury

#12. Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?
A: I never made a calculation
Q: What do you think?
A: I do not think about things I don't think about.
Q: Do you think about things you do think about?
A: Well, sometimes.

Scopes Trial

#13. If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

John Newton