Best 1587 quotes in «evolution quotes» category

Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.

E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

Evolution never looks to the future.

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in life itself. What stunned me about seasteading is that it's a technology for variation and selection in governance itself. The reason some two hundred nation-states do a poor job of governing seven billion people is that they don't vary, and people don't select.

Evolution leads the way through desire.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Evolution is smarter than you are.