Best 1587 quotes in «evolution quotes» category

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfillment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything.

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

The more clean you are in awakening to your own being, the more you'll be able to move your own being toward others.  Your evolution as awareness is in the purity of thatit's in the cleanness.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

The next frontier is our own selves.

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

Theology made no provision for evolution.

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.

The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

The pressure was always there, but I feel like it was almost invisible to me. I had too much going on once I got rolling with Evolution and won my first title. They say the cream rises to the top, and I felt like the cream. I rose to the top real quick, and I was surrounded by Triple H, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, these guys who were very well respected in the profession, and they wanted to work with me.

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

There are days when you might enjoy being an editor a little less, due to one crisis or another. It is absolutely vital, to me, in a period of technological evolution and sometimes financial stress that I and my colleagues not only put out a fantastic magazine and Web site and all the rest, but also that we are smart enough about what we are doing.