# Jerry A. Coyne

- Quotes: 14
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne

## Books

- [Why Evolution Is True](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true.md) — 14 quotes

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> Tiny, nonfunctional wings, a dangerous appendix, eyes that can’t see, and silly ear muscles simply don’t make sense if you think that species were specially created.

p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/tiny-nonfunctional-wings.md)

> Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible—though very unlikely—that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/now-science-cannot.md)

> It’s clear that this resistance stems largely from religion. You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/its-clear-that.md)

> We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

p. 90 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/we-now-have.md)

> The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn’t exist.

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/the-biogeographic-evidence.md)

> Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

p. 231 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/evolution-tells-us-where.md)

> We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we should be proud that we are the only species that has figured out how we came to be.

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/we-are-the.md)

> This book lays out the main lines of evidence for evolution. For those who oppose Darwinism purely as a matter of faith, no amount of evidence will do—theirs is a belief not based on reason.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/this-book-lays.md)

> If you can’t think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn’t scientific.

p. 138 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/if-you-cant.md)

> We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/we-humans-have.md)

> The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/the-battle-for.md)

> If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-a-coyne/why-evolution-is-true/if-the-history.md)