I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Recently, a professor at Penn State told my son Joshua's class that during a trip to Africa, he had a mysterious encounter… — Jack Cuozzo Copy Share Image
When I came out in '95, even though it was part of the storyline, I was known as the next evolution of… — Big Show Copy Share Image
If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
There's just always going to be both positives and negatives to any evolution that we're a part of. And there's really no… — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Change blows through the branches of our existence. It fortifies the roots on which we stand, infuses crimson experience with autumn hues,… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
Because the weak do not want to get preyed on by the strong, they had to evolve — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences.… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Men are tested and tried amongst deceptions radically and they are winning for themselves abilities to give, to deliberate, to stand fast,… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image