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That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by slow, gradual degree. At no point are you postulating the sudden coming into existence of a complicated being.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.

The car is undoubtedly quicker and more balanced. The traction and braking can still be improved a bit but there's been a good evolution already from three weeks ago.

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

The creationists have this creator who is evil, who is small-minded, who is malevolent, and who is not very bright and can't even get his science right. Creationists have made their creator in their own image, in my view.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfillment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

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

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

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?

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

The next frontier is our own selves.