Evolved Quotes

442 quotes by 370 authors

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. — E. O. Wilson
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. — E. O. Wilson
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. — E. O. Wilson
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm… — Mark Zuckerberg
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. — Frans de Waal
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. — Helen Fisher
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and… — Helen Fisher
We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the… — Helen Fisher
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India. — Anurag Kashyap
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,… — Charles Darwin
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that… — Neal Stephenson
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the… — James Allen
The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful… — Gary D. Schmidt
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in… — Harper Lee
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? — Steven Wright
I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken. — Angelina Jolie
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not… — Dan Brown
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the… — Michael Crichton
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of… — Virginia Woolf
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,… — Orson Scott Card

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