42 Movie Quotes about Evolution (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 17, 2025

Memorable quotes about evolution, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Give it up, old man. You can't fight evolution. I was built for speed.

Ellen Degeneres as Dory in Finding Nemo

2 Precedent in our own evolution makes it possible that they have more than one brain. -You mean two? Three?

Quote from The War of the Worlds (1953)

3 What they forget is every time they build a better mousetrap, the mice get smarter, too.

Walter Matthau as Whiplash Willie Gingrich in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

4 The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

5 I'm trying to teach the cavemen to play Scrabble. It's uphill work. The only word they know is 'uh', and they don't know how to spell it. -What's the point in that? -We've got to make them evolve.

Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6 Everything we gonna do is changing. We are change. We're gonna change the way we run. We're gonna change the way we eat. We're gonna change the way we block. We're gonna change the way we tackle. We're gonna change the way we win.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans

7 Now, first of all, lad, we've got to get all of these medieval ideas out of your head. Clear the way for new ideas.

Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

8 The significance of the moth is change. Caterpillar into chrysalis or pupa... and, from thence, into beauty.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

9 It is a matter of science. Evolution. Isn't it, gentlemen?

Quote from Rocky IV (1985)

10 Now, man, on the other hand, rose off his four legs, and developed tools, machinery, agriculture, and a chronic pain in his lower back.

Quote from The Cat from Outer Space (1978)