Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants… — Michael Beckwith
Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess… — Martin Wolf
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. — Phillip E. Johnson
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity… — Daniel Goleman
My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy… — Lily Tomlin
To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me." — Simon Boswell
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in… — Demosthenes
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was… — Robert Aickman
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient… — Charles Stross
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and… — Sigurd F. Olson
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory — Kenneth R. Miller
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didnâ€™t take me long to conclude that it was simply… — Lee Strobel
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it… — Henry M. Morris
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist — Michael Hutchence
By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you. — Deepak Chopra
The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all. — Peter Medawar
When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, theyâ€™re doing so for purely selfish reasons. Itâ€™s… — Greg Gutfeld
The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form… — Thomas Nagel
The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that… — Thomas Berry

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