Evolution Quotes

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.

If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting.

In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

Every problem was once a solution to a previous problem.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist?

Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the evolution of spirit through matter.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

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.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.