Quotes with evolution

  • Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
  • To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.
  • Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
  • Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bruce Lipton There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Alfred Noyes At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
    Alfred Noyes
    English poet, short-story writer and playwright (1880 - 1958)
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  • Ben Carson Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Herbert Spencer Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite coherent heterogeneity.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Bill Nye Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • John Morley Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Bill Nye Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Evolution never looks to the future.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Graham Greene God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Arthur Peacocke In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Havelock Ellis It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Annie Dillard It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bill Evans It just doesn't attract me. I'm of a certain period, a certain evolution. I hear music differently I mean, for me, comparing electric bass to acoustic bass is sacrilege.
    About Electric music instruments
    Bill Evans
    American jazz pianist and composer (1929 - 1980)
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  • Steven Wright My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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