Quotation Explorer - 'Evolution'

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. - Richard Dawkins
...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution. - Michael Shermer
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. - Virchand Gandhi
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. - Karl Lagerfeld
God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us. - Thomas Keating
I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment. - Steven Magee
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. - Theodosius Dobzhansky
Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the first is the theory of descent with modification. Some call it the fact of evolution, and some call it the doctrine of evolution. - Lee Spetner
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God. - G.I. Gurdjieff
I don't discuss evolution, to believe the theory is to deny many known evidences about the existence of a supreme creator (God) those who hold on to that view are in denials of reality and are by so doing ignorant - Oluseyi Akinbami
Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear. - Grigoris Deoudis
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. - Eckhart Tolle
I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important. [In: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250] - George Gaylord Simpson
The surname of an atheist is compound unfortunate plus being, therefore unfortunate-beings, making all atheists unfortunate beings because human beings are created by God and not products of big bang atoms undergoing evolution. - S. E. Entsua-Mensah
We notice our evolution when we realize that sweeping our problems under the rug is useless. - Keith Dussia
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.
I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. - Bill Hicks
Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep. - Pawan Mishra
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy. - J.B.S. Haldane
The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination. - Homer W. Smith
And evolution wasn't even properly invented until the late 1800s. Is that enough time to get a Labrador retriever from a dire wolf? I think not. - Bobby Henderson
Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented. - conversations with a pigeon
When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee. - Jonathan Haidt
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. - James D. Watson
Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes. - James Hervey Johnson
The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living is, he will say Richard Dawkins. And indeed, Dawkins has done a marvelous job of popularizing Darwinism. But Dawkins' basic theory of the gene being the object of evolution is totally non-. Ernst W. Mayr - Darwinian
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work. - Usher Raymond
Evolution is constant. Evolving better is individual’s conscience. - Pradeepa Pandiyan
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe. - Mehmet Murat ildan
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. - Thomas A. Edison
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. - Judith Hayes
Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people. - Steven M. Greer
Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era. - Steven Magee
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution. - John Hughlings Jackson
Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure to enforce these behaviors - God. - Lex Allen
In the past imagination and enjoyment were the religions. What is religion? It is the evolution of life power. What a man is wanting to know? He always wants to know the infinite power latent in his body. See what an immense power this human body holds! - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. - Louis Schwartzberg
People relates the process of evolution, as growth and success in the material world, rather in reality, the process of evolution, is all about, how you perceive life, with your understanding, in the present moment. - Roshan Sharma
The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us. - Christopher Hitchens
The journey of a human is not the process of evolution, but to know thy-self. - Roshan Sharma
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. - Pope Benedict XVI
There are no signboards in life; your inner voice and your inner knowledge are enough to lead you in the direction of your highest evolution. - Priya Kumar
Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance. - Lionel Suggs
The abode of the spirits are astral world and earth land counterparts. In the path of evolution, the soul is futile. You need a body to unfold consciousness. - Usha Cosmico
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution. - Capies Pitts
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I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds! - Mehmet Murat ildan
As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution. - M. Scott Peck
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steven Wright
One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity. - Ufuoma Apoki
It only takes a tenth grade course on evolution to know that the prostate g-spot’s existence alone is proof that ass play has been done for a very, very long time. - Maggie Young
To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest. - Deepak Chopra
Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution. - Debasish Mridha
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one. - George Gaylord Simpson
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. - Aldous Huxley
It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evolution. Darwin explains nature! He has more difficulty explaining us. - David Brin
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Our awareness about ourselves and the world around us is so limited that we are ready to destroy ourselves. For the survival of humanity, an evolution of consciousness is essential. - Debasish Mridha
Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. - Duane T. Gish
That's not me, Honey. That's evolution! - A. Cretan
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever - Daniel Marques
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred. - J.B.S. Haldane
There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. - Julian Huxley
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by , evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. Ernst W. Mayr - Lamarck
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that). - Richard Dawkins
The purpose of four incarnative existence is the evolution of the soul. It is to learn, grow and become master of our own life. - Thomas Vazhakunnathu
Life must be lived forward but only makes sense by looking backward. Only in retrospect do the pieces of the puzzle connect, revealing an intelligently orchestrated evolution. Our journey through life is in a way like walking blindfolded. - Dorit Brauer
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? - Charles Darwin
The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives. - R.N. Prasher
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards! - Mehmet Murat ildan
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. - Edward Tatum
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life. - Alecia Stone
The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology.
Letting go facilitates the evolution of the soul. - Jodi Livon
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. - Edmund Beecher Wilson
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' - William Ralph Inge
The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I do not derive out of the evolution, but the act of creativity inside of it! - Vishwanath S J
As a soul, you have the freedom and earned responsibility to transpose your personal process of evolution, to manifest your greatest talents and vision, into the work that matters to you most as a means to personal redemption. - Darrell Calkins
A child is reliving millions of years of Evolution from a single cell to a XXI Century Human. This is the most amazing miracle I've ever encountered, and I am truly grateful to the Nature for letting me perform it - for letting me create a new life called Emily. - Sophia Newtown
My body lies within the strings and myths of reality with a purpose of evolution and adapted by gravity but for my conscious's matrix is without any doubt has adapted to other's consciousness and that is how we all adapt to survival. - Ahmed Aziz Ahmed
Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does. - Douglas Adams
Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology. - Shannon L. Alder
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Once, we lived to love. Now, we live for power. The world is changing. But we cannot stop the evolution, or everything will come apart. - Zoey-Rose Hawthorne
Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. - Grigoris Deoudis
Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones. - Ruth Hurmence Green
And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other. - Richard Mitchell
The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory; it is a law of Nature as universal in living things as is the law of gravitation in material things and in the motions of the heavenly spheres. - Henry Fairfield Osborn
Fill the world with acid rain clouds and you will be in a new era of evolution, due to the changed electromagnetic frequencies emissions and light emissions from the lightning clouds. A new era of global environmental radiation! - Steven Magee
Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving. - Raphael Zernoff
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. - Eknath Easwaran
Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences - Piero Scaruffi
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. - Virchand Gandhi
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody;and from being nobody to being everybody.This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution. - Steven Magee
Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole. - Theodosius Dobzhansky
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. - Karl Lagerfeld
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution. - Sir William Osler
Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt. - Steven Magee
Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. - Steve Maraboli
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. - Stephen Jay Gould
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage. - Isaac Asimov
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese. - Eoin Colfer
Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey. - Jon Scott
Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the Sea of Changes. It starts from within. - Grigoris Deoudis
I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance. - David Attenborough
Every bet of evolution in history came with its built in bet of madness. - Sameh Elsayed
Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them. - David Kitts
In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free. Torn From the Inside Out - Sara Niles
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? - Milton Berle
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. - Albert Einstein
If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution. - Shah Asad Rizvi
Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability. - Raheel Farooq
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