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

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

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 works, why are monkeys still around?

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents.

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

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'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.

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

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

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 fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.