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Evolved Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,…
- The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the…
- The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
- Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
- Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
- Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more…
- Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our…
More Evolved Quotes
- A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
- Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? — Stephen Baldwin
- On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the… — David Lack
- Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins
- The tremendous population increase has made meditation and psychic perception, things that come naturally to spiritually evolved people, difficult to practice and… — Frederick Lenz
- We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses! — Martha Beck
- I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs. — Kirk Cameron
- All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — Aldo Leopold