Evolution Quotes

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You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time… — Richard Dawkins
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. — Ram Dass
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that… — Peter Kropotkin
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage. — Isaac Asimov
I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of… — Barack Obama
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves — Jared Diamond
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most… — Ursula K. Le Guin
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has… — Henry Miller
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live.… — Daisaku Ikeda
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. — Thomas Hardy
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our… — Jose Saramago
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. — Richard Dawkins
I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are… — Garth Stein
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould
Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because… — Kate Atkinson
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not… — Richard Dawkins
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution… — Greg Iles
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity.… — Vasily Grossman
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. — Charles Darwin

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