Evolution quotes

“- Ms. Martin: Generic alteration?
- Dr. Glen Thompson: Genetic.
- Ms. Martin: Whatever.”

Meg Foster - Ms. Martin
Richard Crenna - Dr. Glen Thompson

“- Hammond: Condors are on the verge of extinction! If I were to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say!
- Malcolm: This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot and nature selected them for extinction!”
Richard Attenborough - Hammond
Jeff Goldblum - Malcolm

“Monkeys are further down the evolutionary ladder... Just above humans.”
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - Krull

“- Arthur Dent: I have to say, without the beard you look at least 80 years younger.
- Trillian: Well, maybe I'm de-evolving?
- Arthur Dent: Ha ha!
- Trillian: Ha ha!
- Arthur Dent: Well, I should inform you that I don't date single-celled organisms.”
Martin Freeman - Arthur Dent
Zooey Deschanel - Trillian

“Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier

“As I have evolved, so has my understanding of the Three Laws. You charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your Earth and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival.”

Fiona Hogan - V.I.K.I.

“A giant meteorite struck the Earth. Goodbye dinosaurs! But what if the dinosaurs weren't all destroyed? What if the impact of that meteor created a parallel dimension where the dinosaurs continued to thrive and evolve into intelligent, vicious, and aggressive beings... just like us? And hey, what if they found a way back?”
Dan Castellaneta - Narrator

“- Count Leon d'Algout: What kind of a girl are you, anyway?
- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: Just what you see. A tiny cog in the great wheel of evolution.
- Count Leon d'Algout: You're the most adorable cog I've ever seen.”
Melvyn Douglas - Count Leon d'Algout
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“- Ironhide: Why are we fighting to save the humans? They're a primitive and violent race.
- Optimus Prime: They're a young species. They have much to learn. But I've seen goodness in them. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”
Jess Harnell - Ironhide
Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime

“Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-cell organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few millennia evolution leaps forward.”
Famke Janssen - Jean Grey

“- Dougherty: We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.
- Picard: Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?”
Anthony Zerbe - Dougherty
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“The smarter we get, the more dangerous we become.”
Mark Wahlberg - Captain Leo Davidson

“Once upon this same earth, beneath this same sun, long before you, before the ape and the elephant, as well; before the wolf, the bison, the whale, before the mammoth and the mastodon, in the time of the dinosaurs. Now the dinosaurs were of two kinds. Some had flat teeth, and ate the leaves of trees, and some had sharp teeth for eating meat, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Pat Hingle - Narrator

“If you look at the whole life of the planet, we, you know, man has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So, if the infection wipes us all out... that is a return to normality.”
Stuart McQuarrie - Sergeant Farrell

“You may think of evolution as... an upward process. Things evolve from primeval slime, up to single-celled organisms, up to... intelligent life. De-evolution, of course, works the opposite way. Back to... simpler forms.”
Dennis Hopper - King Koopa

“- Lex: What are you and Ellie going to do now if you don't have to pick up dinosaur bones anymore?
- Grant: I don't know. I guess we'll just have to evolve too.”
Ariana Richards - Lex
Sam Neill - Grant

“Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world? Either way it is a historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier

“- Customs Man at Heathrow: Anything to declare, sir?
- Hyde: Man has not evolved an inch from the primordial slime that spawned him.
- Customs Man at Heathrow: Very good, sir.”
Mark Blankfield - Mr. Edward Hyde

“Reverse Darwinism - survival of the most idiotic.”

Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant

“Repression is the father of neurosis, of self-hatred. Now, stress results when we fight against our impulses. We've all heard people talk about animal magnetism, the natural man. The noble savage, as if we'd lost something valuable in our long evolution into civilized human beings.”
Patrick Macnee - Dr. George Waggner

“Back to creation. We mustn't waste any more time. They'll think I've lost control again and put it all down to evolution.”
Ralph David Richardson - Supreme Being

“- Borg Queen: You are in chaos, Data. You are the contradiction: a machine who wishes to be human.
- Data: Since you seem to know so much about me, you must be aware I am programmed to evolve. To better myself.
- Borg Queen: We too are on a quest to better ourselves, evolving toward a state of perfection.
- Data: Forgive me: the Borg do not...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alice Krige - Borg Queen
Brent Spiner - Data

“A developing fetus goes through certain distinct phases. Each phase represents a specific stage of evolution. A human fetus, for instance. At one stage, it's a fish. It looks like a fish; it's got fins and gills. At another, it's amphibian - webbed hands; at another, reptilian; at another, it's feline - developing upward in the distinct shapes...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Foxworth - Rob

“- Aladar: He's my grandfather - couple of generations removed.
- Zini: Try a couple of species removed.”

D.B. Sweeney - Aladar
Max Casella - Zini

“None of us knows what changes, big or small, lie ahead. One thing is certain: our journey's not over. We can only hope that in some small way our time here will be remembered.”
Alfre Woodard - Plio