Best 1587 quotes in «evolution quotes» category

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.

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

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.

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally - in relation to the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years.

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

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.... It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.

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

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.

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.

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.

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.

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.