Evolution Quotes

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In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people… — Abraham Maslow
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand… — Isaac Asimov
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s]… — Charles Darwin
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. — Charles Darwin
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. — Charles Darwin
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give… — Daniel Dennett
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. — Jared Diamond
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind… — Richard Dawkins
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. — Matt Ridley
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and… — Robert Wright
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom. — Matt Ridley
Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our… — Matt Ridley
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson

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