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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 If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown.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.

...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 cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite.

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

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.

Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God

Evolution is your solution.

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

[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 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.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.