Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped.… — Carl Sagan
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else. — John Cleese
The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene — Matt Ridley
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice… — Michael Beckwith
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian… — Phillip E. Johnson
The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This means that there… — Ken Wilber
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures… — Lionel Tiger
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. — Vernor Vinge
In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge… — Derek Rydall
There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal… — Sri Aurobindo
This transformation is already proceeding, and if we want to consciously find these evolutionary currents operating in our own being as well-if we want to… — Ken Wilber
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the… — Ray Kurzweil
Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of… — Thomas Berry
Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward. — Jaggi Vasudev
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection… — William A. Dembski
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force. — Alex Grey
Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. Itâ€™s a… — Jessa Gamble
Gigerâ€™s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where… — Timothy Leary
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And… — Manu Joseph

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