That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to…

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising…

— Maria Montessori

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny…

— E. O. Wilson

There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to be told.…

— E. O. Wilson

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on…

— E. O. Wilson

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

— Karl Popper

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I…

— Richard Dawkins

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

— Damien Fahey

“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by…

— Sun Yat-sen

“In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and…

— Urantia Foundation

“I beg you to see this in the right light, and to combine it with the feeling about what happened through the Mystery of…

— Rudolf Steiner

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The…

— Frans de Waal

“The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit and experienced…

— Monica Sjöö

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars