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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 works, why are monkeys still around?

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

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

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

I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our coasts, and another book about evolution. Seasteading captivated me because it incorporates both evolution and environmental restoration.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

I'm selling evolution. You grow or you die.