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

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.

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

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

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.

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

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 misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

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 more clean you are in awakening to your own being, the more you'll be able to move your own being toward others.  Your evolution as awareness is in the purity of thatit's in the cleanness.

The next frontier is our own selves.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

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?

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

The pressure was always there, but I feel like it was almost invisible to me. I had too much going on once I got rolling with Evolution and won my first title. They say the cream rises to the top, and I felt like the cream. I rose to the top real quick, and I was surrounded by Triple H, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, these guys who were very well respected in the profession, and they wanted to work with me.

There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.

There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

There are days when you might enjoy being an editor a little less, due to one crisis or another. It is absolutely vital, to me, in a period of technological evolution and sometimes financial stress that I and my colleagues not only put out a fantastic magazine and Web site and all the rest, but also that we are smart enough about what we are doing.

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.

There must be another way, if only because there has to be.

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

There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.

These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?

The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.