Best 1587 quotes in «evolution quotes» category

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 am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

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 appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

I feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians.

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 is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

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.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

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.

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

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

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

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.

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.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

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 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 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.

I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.

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

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

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.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.