Evolutionary Quotes

321 quotes by 235 authors

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological… — Richard Dawkins
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. — Ernst Mayr
We are part and parcel of a single and all-encompassing evolutionary current that is itself Spirit-in-action, the mode and manner of Spirit's creation, and thus… — Ken Wilber
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary… — Edward Abbey
Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes,… — Robert A. Heinlein
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying… — Steven Pinker
We â€” mankind â€” stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device â€” our consciousness of the crisis â€” as… — Margaret Mead
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to… — Jules Henry
Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to… — Harriet Lerner
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing… — Niles Eldredge
The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be… — Joanna Macy
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can… — Robert A. Heinlein
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or… — Robert Nozick
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature... — Stanton Peele
Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do… — Marc Gafni
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an… — Bo Burnham
Robert Zubrinâ€™s masterful studyâ€¦makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass… — Steven W. Mosher
When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it's the collective consciousness and the collective energy of… — Bruce H. Lipton
We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We… — David Duke
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. — Kenneth E. Boulding

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