Evolution Quotes
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.
The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.
There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
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.
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.
We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.
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.
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
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?
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.