Quote by Sandor Ellix Katz

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

— Carl Rogers

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,

— Antony Flew

“For in the ever-repeated origination of highly organized individuals from an infinitesimal germ, the working-out of a prearranged plan of growth and development seems…

— Hans Jonas

“All creation is patterned according to an inner blueprint or arrangement that carries within it a genetic memory of everything that ever happens.”

— Lawrence Kushner

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

— Ray Kurzweil

“Look at any randomly selected piece of your world. Encoded deep in the biology of every cell in every blade of grass, in every…

— Brian Cox

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While…

— Thomas Berry

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here…

— George Wald

“we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.”

— Jacob Bronowski

“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch

The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic…

— Stephen Jay Gould

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

— Stephen Jay Gould