Evolution Quotes

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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. — Betty Friedan
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what… — Kurt Vonnegut
I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic… — Laura Marling
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… — Sigmund Freud
The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of… — Will Durant
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives. — Ursula K. Le Guin
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables… — Peter Gabriel
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. — Phyllis Schlafly
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. — Usher
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the… — William Jennings Bryan
Sex according to Sangarakshita is rooted in the Lower Evolution and does not, in his experience, enhance communication between individuals. And sexual relationships, encouraging as… — Sangharakshita
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real,… — Michael Behe
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book… — William Jennings Bryan
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo… — Arthur Koestler
Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of… — E. O. Wilson
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span… — E. O. Wilson
These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot… — E. O. Wilson
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults — Paul Lemoine

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