Evolution Quotes
Evolution Quote of the day
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?
He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.
Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.
All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are theemotional hallmarks of our species
Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.
The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.What about love? Where does that fit in?Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.
By eliminating choice there is in turn an elimination of growth. You must have a choice and in experiencing both the light and the dark you are given a wonderful opportunity to choose.
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
There are millions reasons to live and not even a single reason to die! You must protect your life - the miracle given to you by the evolution - under all conditions!
If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years.Would we know we were together?
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.
Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it
You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free.
Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.
Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.
Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.
Their necks also beautifully demonstrate the jury-rigged nature of evolution while simultaneously refuting the notion that some divine Artificer intelligently designed organic life
A societal revolution is politically organic in nature. It can't be engineered. It has to be evolved.
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
