Evolution Quotes

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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig… — Steven Pinker
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence… — E. O. Wilson
To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution. — E. O. Wilson
Theology made no provision for evolution. — E. O. Wilson
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity. — L. Ron Hubbard
The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. — Howard Hughes
For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have… — Quintus Curtius Rufus
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by… — Clement Greenberg
I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from… — Katherine Dunn
Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today. — Alberto Giacometti
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural… — Ernst Mayr
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the… — Ernst Mayr
The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out… — Kenneth R. Miller
The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it… — Steven Pressfield
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of… — Steven Pressfield
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new… — Rupert Sheldrake
Our strategic evolution has established Monsanto as the leading innovator in agricultural seeds and technology, .. The financial discipline we have exercised has also allowed… — Terry Crews
For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result… — Otto Rank

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