Best 1587 quotes in «evolution quotes» category

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

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

Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.

Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perhaps integral, and from there perhaps into genuinely transpersonal domains. But for every person that moves into integral or higher, dozens are born into the archaic.

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

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.

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It's about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

I feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians.

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.

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.

If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

If you're dumb enough to do crack, you're supposed to die. It's evolution.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

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.

If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.