Evolution Quotes

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Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. — Jean Piaget
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying… — Keith Haring
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as… — Pierre Boulez
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man… — John Fowles
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more… — Frans de Waal
So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal… — Ludwig von Mises
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question — Kenneth R. Miller
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution… — Eugenie Scott
Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an evolution which, as… — Louis Pasteur
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival. — Daniel Goleman
I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of… — Robert Kagan
We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes… — Igor Markevitch
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at… — Jacques Monod
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human… — Theodore Kaczynski
Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having. — Richard Bandler
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth. — M. Scott Peck
The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human… — Stanislav Grof
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. — Michael Pollan

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