Evolution Quotes

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a… — Thomas Huxley
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than… — Muhammad Iqbal
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. — Samuel Johnson
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we… — Franz Kafka
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right,… — Franz Kafka
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. — Robert Kennedy
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult… — Sue Monk Kidd
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind… — Rem Koolhaas
The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their… — Emeril Lagasse
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that… — C.S. Lewis
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. — James Lovelock
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia… — James Lovelock
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook,… — Simon Mainwaring
A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but… — Damian Marley
I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is… — John McCain
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. — Henry Miller

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