“Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
“God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Sadly, Our Dispirited Dream often conditions us to conform to a safe path rather than journey through the unknown in resonance with… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
“No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.” — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The creationists have this creator who is evil, who is small-minded, who is malevolent, and who is not very bright and can't… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
“Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
Evolution is evolution - and it's happened before us and will continue after we're gone. But, what's taking place now is much… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.” — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present day occur… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
