Evolution Quotes

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If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in… — Jane Goodall
In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world.… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to… — Dan Millman
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish… — Thomas Huxley
Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree… — Vishnudevananda Saraswati
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around. — Nick Hanauer
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on… — Max Eastman
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. — Walter Gilbert
We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution. — James Levine
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There are no shortcuts in evolution. — Louis D. Brandeis
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above… — Alfred Noyes
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. — Charles Sanders Peirce
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with… — Benjamin Disraeli
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate… — Jean Baudrillard
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have… — Havelock Ellis
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. — W. S. Gilbert
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might… — Bertrand Russell
One of the stupidest theories of Western life. — Malcolm Muggeridge

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