Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to… — Erich Jantsch
It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as… — Joanna Macy
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel… — Carl Woese
The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework — Carl Woese
Pain is not an evolutionary error. — Mathis Wackernagel
The next evolutionary step is into the screen. — Marc Maron
There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap… — David Foster
Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will distance himself from you, while all those who are on the same evolutionary… — Ricky Martin
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth… — Michael Denton
In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the… — Michael Denton
Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of… — Anna Lee
Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths. — Terry Tempest Williams
We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own â€“ indeed, to embrace the whole creation… — Wangari Maathai
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... — Robert Thurman
It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.... — Nick Matzke
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain… — Robert Thurman
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and… — Dean H. Kenyon
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal… — Pierre-Paul Grasse

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