Evolution Quotes

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.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

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.

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.

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.

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further (biological) evolution.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Don't call for a revolution, but look at yourself honestly and create an evolution.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.

Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.