Evolution Quotes · Page 42

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

— Joel Garreau

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

— Holmes Rolston III

Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.

— Robert Holden

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

— Anne Wojcicki

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

— Bill Walton

“Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable.”

— Richard Dawkins

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

— Kesha

What the hell's a Rachem? Is that some paleontology term that I wouldn't know about because I'm just a waitress?

— Rachel Green

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of…

— Leonardo Bianchi

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about…

— Emo Philips

People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts,…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“The human form was never [formed] to beget children. This tendency among people to cohabit is nothing but animal instinct inherited from…

— Meher Baba

“Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and humanity cannot claim any…

— Thomas Vazhakunnathu

To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at…

— Jim Goad

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

— Werner Herzog

“That genes explain our behaviour and well-being distracts attention from society as a cause; such ideas also encourage us to accept or…

— Oliver James

“Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the random movements of…

— Ray Kurzweil

“A nutritive centre, anatomically considered, is merely a cell, the nucleus of which is the permanent source of successive broods of young…

— John Goodsir

“Now I have two immediate objects in view. The first is to devote myself to the evolutionary life more thoroughly than I…

— John Davidson

Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and…

— Andrew Dickson White

“Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it…

— Terry Pratchett

“Since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from…

— Stephen C. Meyer

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as…

— Tracy Lawrence

If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to…

— Robert Trivers

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

Don't call for a revolution, but look at yourself honestly and create an evolution.

— Tsem Tulku

One dip in that toxic muck and your DNA will be permanently mutated. You'll grow a camel hump or a Zoidberg face.…

— Futurama

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

— Timothy Leary

“The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution”

— Lance Parkin

“We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.”

— Allegra Goodman

“We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.”

— Caspar Henderson

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

— Charles Lyell

“the pace of our ability to read and write DNA increases tenfold every year.”

— James Rollins

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

— John Jeremiah Bigsby

As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.

— Eduard Buchner

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

— Albert Hofmann

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

— James Redfield

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

— Kehinde Wiley