Best 1587 quotes in «evolution quotes» category

I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions...

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

My personal style is a continued evolution. I can see I've had a different style for every different age in the period of my life. It's difficult for me to say what is my style because I change all the time. I change every eight months, it's so weird.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

Natural selection is not evolution.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally - in relation to the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years.

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.... It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.