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Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

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.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.

Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

Social evolution is demonstrated by movement towards unity, not separatism.

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.

Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence.

Success is not in obtaining the thing. Because there's always another thing. And then you look back on it, and for me, through my evolution, yes I have success by most measures - but for me, when it comes to the greatest joy of reward, there's an emotional element and there's an intellectual element. Emotionally, my greatest joy was the personal relationships I've had. That was the greatest joy. Intellectually, my satisfaction was that I do feel I've evolved well and I'm doing my best to contribute toward evolution.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions.

Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by slow, gradual degree. At no point are you postulating the sudden coming into existence of a complicated being.

The car is undoubtedly quicker and more balanced. The traction and braking can still be improved a bit but there's been a good evolution already from three weeks ago.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.