Biology Quote by Sri Aurobindo Download Open image “Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.” — Sri Aurobindo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Consciousness Evolution Existence Life Motive Philosophy of Mind
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth… — Stuart Sutherland Copy Share Image
“Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species. — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
“In some evolving civilizations, for reasons which we don't entirely understand, the evolution of consciousness is attended by a disaster of some sort which occurs shortly after the Sy breakthrough. It has something to do with the discovery of the self and the incapacity to deal with it, the consciousness becoming self-conscious but not knowing what to do with the… — Walker Percy Copy Share
“Across the threshold’s sleep she entered in And found herself amid great figures of gods Conscious in stone and living without breath, Watching with… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“One who has shaped this world is ever its lord: Our errors are his steps upon the way; He works through the fierce vicissitudes of our lives, He works through the hard breath of battle and toil, He works through our sins and sorrows and our tears, His knowledge overrules our nescience; Whatever the appearance we must bear, Whatever our… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share
“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics (so-called evolutionary genetics), or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical and environmental information on cells and genomes—but this capacity is speculative, limited, idiosyncratic, and unpredictable: a parent with an experience of starvation produces children with obesity and overnourishment, while a father with the experience of tuberculosis,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around… — Sara Maitland Copy Share
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
