42 Movie Quotes about Evolution (Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

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

Quote from Planet of the Apes (1968)

32 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.

Quote from Island of Lost Souls (1932)

33 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

34 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)

35 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?

Quote from Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

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

Jack Kelly in The Master (1984)

37 Living proof of evolution.

Quote from Strange Brew (1983)

38 It's really a miracle of evolution.

Quote from Jaws

39 Yes. Behold this marvel, this living paradox. This missing link in an evolutionary chain.