Evolution Quotes

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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving… — Usher
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole… — Jerry Saltz
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. — Marjane Satrapi
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn vos Savant
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. — Albert Schweitzer
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't… — George Bernard Shaw
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish. — Michael Shermer
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is… — Peter Singer
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define… — Wole Soyinka
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation… — Herbert Spencer
A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in… — Sharon Stone
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then,… — David Suzuki
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic… — Jimmy Swaggart
Things do not change; we change. — Henry David Thoreau
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the… — Lewis Thomas
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the… — Lewis Thomas
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. — Edward Thorndike
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature,… — Leon Trotsky
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. — Mark Twain

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