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To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution.

Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing bones became arms and hands; perhaps I'm de-evolving.

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.

We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

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

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.

We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its' life.

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

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

Wenn jemand sich in Inkarnation befindet, bietet ihm dieser Körper das Problem, das er erlernen muss oder (wenn die Evolution fortgeschritten ist) bietet den Träger, der sich für die Art der jeweiligen Aufgabe am besten eignet. Ein orientalischer Körpertyp hat eine gewisse Anzahl von Fähigkeiten, und ein abendländischer Körpertyp weist andere und, wenn ich so sagen darf, ebenso gute Eignungen auf.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

What I like about the Pleiadians is that they work and meet each person where they are in their own evolution. Every initiation, every process, is designed for the individual to meet an aspect of where they are within themselves.

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Once this new evolution begins, it will in no necessary sense be subservient to the old.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

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.

When you walk in a beautiful road, you must know that you are walking on a miracle: The miracle of evolution!

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

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

Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction. Owen believed in extinction but not evolution. Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction. Darwin believed in evolution and extinction. All four of them believed in God.

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.