Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage created by our two parents. Our higher purpose on earth… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
“Now I have two immediate objects in view. The first is to devote myself to the evolutionary life more thoroughly than I… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents,… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the world is attuned to its… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution. — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the… — Chris Bangle Copy Share Image
Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image