Evolution Quotes

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I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more… — David Zindell
Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and… — Robin Furth
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is… — Holmes Rolston III
We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution â€” like, what do we want to be… — Paul Gilding
The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now… — Eckhart Tolle
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15… — Carl Sagan
As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution? — Leroy Cronin
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the… — Juan Enriquez
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism, — Antony Flew
I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you… — Sherwood Washburn
Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all,… — Rick Yancey
Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite. — Irene Parlby
Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances for… — Bruce H. Lipton
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution,… — Beth Orton
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution. — Robert Muller
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a… — Louis Schwartzberg
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose. — Johannes V. Jensen
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my… — Johannes V. Jensen
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution. — Andy Borowitz
The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it... Evolution is a kind of dogma… — Paul Lemoine

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