Evolution Quotes
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.
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
No practice exists in isolation.
Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.
The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.
The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.
Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.
The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.
The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.
I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.
Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.
It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.
We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.
Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.
Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.
Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.
The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?
