Evolution Quotes - page 17

He who has envisioned evolution will approach it carefully, joyously brushing away the dust on the path. Most important, there will be no fear in him. And rejecting the unnecessary he will acquire simplicity. It is easy to understand that the realization of evolution is always beautiful. Again they will ask: "Why at the beginning of the path is so much that is pleasant accorded and so much forgiven?" It is because in the beginning all fires are full blown and the called one walks as a torch. It is up to him to choose the quality of his fire. He who comprehends the discipline of spirit will understand the direction of the fire and will approach the cooperation for the General Good. The end of the path can be illumined by athousand fires of the General Good. These thousand fires will light the rainbow of the aura. Therefore, the discipline of spirit is wings! (Nicholas Roerich)
Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change. View quote
E. O. Wilson
At the apogee of the state's evolution, architecture was monumental, and the ruling class were exalted as a pseudospecies. The sacred rites of statehood became the central focus of religion. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? View quote
E. O. Wilson
We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow. View quote
E. O. Wilson
The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99 percent of human evolution. View quote
E. O. Wilson
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. View quote
Eoin Colfer
The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state. View quote
Yehuda Ashlag
Evolutionary psychology was the organizing framework-the source of "explanatory adequacy” or a "theory of the computation”-that the science of psychology had been missing. Like vision and language, our emotions and cognitive faculties are complex, useful, and nonrandomly organized, which means that they must be a product of the only physical process capable of generating complex, useful, nonrandom organization, namely, natural selection. An appeal to evolution was already implicit in the metatheoretical directives of Marr and Chomsky, with their appeal to the function of a mental faculty, and evolutionary psychology simply shows how to apply that logic to the rest of the mind. (Steven Pinker)
Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity. View quote
Rudolf Rocker
In all the previous cases of wholes, we have nowhere been able to argue from the parts of the whole. Compared to its parts, the whole constituted by them is something quite different, something creatively new, as we have seen. Creative evolution synthesises from the parts a new entity not only different from them, but quite transcending them. That is the essence of a whole. It is always transcendent to its parts, and its character cannot be inferred from the characters of its parts. View quote
Jan Smuts
(Holism is) the tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution ... View quote
Jan Smuts
I was not a poet. I felt no consolation in this knowledge, but only a red anger that evolution could allow such sensitivity and such inadequacy to coexist in the same mind. In one ego, my ego, screaming like a hare caught in a gin. View quote
John Fowles
Wind, earthquake, fire-meteorology, seismology, physics-pass in review, as we have been reviewing the natural forces of evolution; the Lord was not in them. Afterwards, a stirring, an awakening in the organ of the brain, a voice which asks "What doest thou here?" View quote
Arthur Eddington
How old do I think the earth is? You know what? I don't have any idea. I know it's pretty old, so it goes back a long, long way. I'm not sure anybody actually knows completely and absolutely how long, how old the earth is. I hear your mom was asking about evolution. You know, it's a theory that's out there. It's got some gaps in it, but in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools, because I figured you're smart enough to figure out which one is right. View quote
Rick Perry
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. View quote
Tom Wolfe
They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life? View quote
Percival Lowell
No, they said they do not believe in evolution, then they said the biggest threat to America: religious radicals living in the Dark Ages. (Jay Leno)
I've learned so many things since then. I've changed in a way that involves elimination for the sake of evolution. There's less emphasis on trying to figure things out. It's about letting things be. I'm focusing on listening to the silence underneath everything. That's what I try to connect with. I can listen to the silence right here, right now while we're talking, and it feels so good. I'm in love with the silence. View quote
Erykah Badu
I think it's necessary. The world creates things up out of prayers that people pray and have. Things begin to move accordingly to how we all collectively think. When you see collectives moving on something you know that there's going to be some kind of mass migration to a higher place, and I see that in the world as a whole, not just in America. I see it all over the globe. People are organizing and fusing together to make change, and it's inspiring. I think it's part of the natural order of things. We're evolving, and what helps us evolve is social media. Social media is social evolution. It's sparking a great change. View quote
Erykah Badu
Christian conservatives are claiming that the hit documentary March of the Penguins supports the theory of intelligent design. Meanwhile, backers of evolution claim that intelligent design is refuted in the documentary March of the Bonaduces. View quote
Amy Poehler
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant