Evolution Quotations | Page 7

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

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

Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take it back. The whole thing is a disaster.

A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century

Natural selection is not evolution.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

The car is undoubtedly quicker and more balanced. The traction and braking can still be improved a bit but there's been a good evolution already from three weeks ago.

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

you just took on five million years of evolution again

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.

We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.

Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist?

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Have they discovered evolution yet?

Evolution never looks to the future.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Once this new evolution begins, it will in no necessary sense be subservient to the old.

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

Evolution is your solution.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

A mighty stream of tendency.

It was a revolution, but now it is an evolution. People know more ingredients, people know more techniques, and people look for more ingredients they've never looked for before. In the '80s, you couldn't find raw tuna in any restaurant that wasn't Japanese. Now, you can't find any restaurant without it or sashimi.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it's inevitable.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest