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It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.

It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual completely continuous transitional sequences.

It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.

It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

It's not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased!

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.

I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

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

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.

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

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.

... 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.

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

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

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

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.

Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

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.

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.

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

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.

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

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.

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

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

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.

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 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.

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

Natural selection is not evolution.

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

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.

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

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

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

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 matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

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

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.

Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment. That was obviously misconstrued, and that's one of the things I probably won't do again