Alternatives Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis,…

— Gary Zukav

“philosopher in question made much of human existence as a tragedy that need not have been were it not for the intervention in our…

— Thomas Ligotti

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage…

— John Green

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge…

— Stephen Hawking

Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

— Huston Smith

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears…

— Francis Crick

“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage…

— John Green

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The trouble is that everybody, myself included, has a brain in which the centers concerned with reason and logic are sitting on top of…

— Paul Watzlawick

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections…

— John Desmond Bernal

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are…

— Matthew McConaughey