Evolution Quotes

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.

Everyone goes through their evolution and I go through mine and you go through yours.

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

I really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands

Beauty is a life-long evolution.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.