Biology Quote by Lyman Abbott

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

— Jan Smuts

“Too often, the notion of progress is used as a code word for perfection, the chain of being in a different guise. The term…

— Steve Jones

“evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best adapts some…

— Dan Simmons

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

— Julian Huxley

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper,…

— James Freeman Clarke

Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

— African Spir

We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any…

— Wes Jackson

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

— C. S. Lewis

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

— Anonymous

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into…

— Alex Campbell

“the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche