Below are some interesting quotes, most of which are from evolutionists, though not all of them. In citations where I do not give the author of a book or article, it is because the book/article was written by the person from whom the quote is from. Enjoy.
"One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all..."--Werhner von Braun (Source: a letter from von Braun to a Mr. Grose, read by Dr. John Ford to the California Board of Education on 14 September 1972)
"It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life, and man in the science classroom."--Werhner von Braun (Source: a letter from von Braun to a Mr. Grose, read by Dr. John Ford to the California Board of Education on 14 September 1972)
"It would be error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance."--Werhner von Braun (Source: a letter from von Braun to a Mr. Grose, read by Dr. John Ford to the California Board of Education on 14 September 1972)
"I suspect...that the sun is 4.5 billion years old. However, given some new and unexpected results to the contrary, and some time for frantic recalculation and theoretical adjustment, I suspect that we could live with Bishop Ussher's value for the age of the earth and sun. I don't think we have much in the way of observational evidence to conflict with that."--John A. Eddy, astrophysicist (Source: Raphael G. Kazmann, "It's About Time: 4.5 Billion Years," Geotimes, vol. 23, September 1978, p. 18--taken from Eddy's "Time, Trees and Solar Change" at a symposium held at Louisiana State University on 13 April 1978)
"The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some freakish, improbable event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle."--Dr. Michael Denton, microbiologist (Source: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, p. 264)
"No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution."--Pierre-Paul Grasse (Source: Evolution of Living Organisms, Academic Press, 1977, p. 88)
"The family trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils."--Stephen Jay Gould (Source: Natural History, May 1977, p. 14)
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears almost to be a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going."--Francis Crick (Source: Life Itself--Its Origin and Nature, p. 88)
"In a way some aspects of Darwinism and neo-Darwinism seem to me to have held back the progress of science."--Colin Patterson (Source: The Listener, vol. 106, 8 October 1981, p. 390)
"[Evolution] is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of though must follow--this is what evolution is."--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as quoted by Theodosius Dobzhansky, as quoted by Francisco J. Ayala (Source: "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky: 1900-1975," Journal of Heredity, vol. 68, January/February 1977, p. 3)
"Take the human body alone--the chance that all the functions of the individual could just happen, is a statistical monstrosity."--George Gallup, originator of the famous Gallup polls (Source: Cora A. Reno, Evolution on Trial, Moody Press, Chicago, 1970, p. 103)
"You cannot fudge this by appealing to quantum mechanics. Either there is nothing to begin with, in which case there is no quantum vacuum, no pre-geometric dust, no time in which anything can happen, no physical laws which can effect a change from nothingness into somethingness; or else there is something, in which case that needs explaining."--David Darling (Source: "On Creating Something from Nothing," New Scientist, vol. 151, 14 September 1996, p. 49)
"Paleontologists are traditionally famous (or infamous) for reconstructing whole animals from the debris of death. Mostly they cheat."--Stefan Bengtson, Institute of Paleontology, Uppsala University, Sweden (Source: "The Solution of a Jigsaw Puzzle," Nature, vol. 345, 28 June 1990, p. 765)
"The rocks do date the fossils, but the fossils date the rocks more accurately. Stratigraphy cannot avoid this kind of reasoning, if it insists on using only temporal concepts, because circularity is inherent in the derivation of time scales."--Dr. J. E. O'Rourke (Source: "Pragmatism versus Materialism in Stratigraphy," American Journal of Science, vol. 276, January 1976, p. 53)
"I admit that an awful lot of that [imaginary stories] has gotten into the textbooks as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on exhibit downstairs [in the American Museum of Natural History] is an exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook after textbook. Now I think that is lamentable, particularly because the people who propose these kinds of stories themselves may be aware of the speculative nature of some of the stuff. But by the time it filters down to the textbooks, we've got science as truth and we've got a problem."--Dr. Niles Eldredge (Source: interview between Eldredge and Luther Sunderland, recorded in Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, p. 78)
"I fully agree with you comments on the lack of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them.... I will lay it on the line--there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument."--Colin Patterson (Source: personal letter to Luther D. Sunderland, 10 April 1979, quoted by Sunderland in Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, p. 78)
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