Evolution Quotes

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

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

Optimization hinders evolution.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

I'm constantly searching for ways to do better because I believe life is an evolution. It's not about reaching an end goal and hanging up your hat...It's about continually growing.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.