Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary… — Stephen Jay Gould
Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time. — Marc Jacobs
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill… — Kelley Armstrong
You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland! — J R Ward
I'm going to talk to her." "And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say, 'Hey, I know… — J R Ward
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely… — Michael Crichton
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species,… — Timothy Leary
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations… — Richard Dawkins
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural.… — Timothy Keller
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as… — Lewis Thomas
...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. — Richard Dawkins
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to… — William A. Dembski
Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone… — Steven Pinker
Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary… — Greg Graffin
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of… — Eckhart Tolle
Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned;… — Eckhart Tolle
Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he… — Richelle Mead
I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into… — David Levithan
You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. — John Green

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