45 Movie Quotes about Evolution (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

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

31 If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained.

Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

32 Did you know that no land animal with a body weight of over 50 pounds survived that age?

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

33 This is called a metamorphosis. It's a change in form and in appearance.

Zach Galligan as Billy Peltzer in Gremlins

34 Well, for a time, the ancients kept humans as household pets until our Lawgiver proved that man could not be tamed.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

35 I took an orchid, and upon it I performed a miracle. I stripped a hundred thousand years of slow evolution from it and I had no longer an orchid, but what orchids will be a hundred thousand years from now. That's one there.

Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (1932)

36 On the planet from which our visitor came, vegetable life underwent an evolution similar to that of our own animal life, which would account for the superiority of its brain. Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors.

Robert Cornthwaite as Dr. Arthur Carrington in The Thing from Another World

37 Eons of ages passed. There came a time when a four-legged thing walked upright. Behold, the first man.

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Mirakle in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

38 Did you pay attention to what he said? -You mean about us being the product of evolution? -Yes. Has it occurred to you that he might be right?

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Mirakle in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

39 People change over the years. Ideas warp. Perspectives alter.

Jack Kelly in The Master (1984)

40 Living proof of evolution.

Dave Thomas as Doug McKenzie in Strange Brew (1983)