Evolution Quotes
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If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it’s not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense (Evolution Quotes)
If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn’t it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another’s prospects of survival at the cost of their own? (Evolution Quotes)
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture (Evolution Quotes)
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 (Evolution Quotes)
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse (Evolution Quotes)
Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn’t so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it (Evolution Quotes)
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution (Evolution Quotes)
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion (Evolution Quotes)
Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe (Evolution Quotes)
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population (Evolution Quotes)
Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men’s threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later (Evolution Quotes)
...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation (Evolution Quotes)
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out (Evolution Quotes)
This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it (Evolution Quotes)
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 (Evolution Quotes)
The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization (Evolution Quotes)
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately (Evolution Quotes)
As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity (Evolution Quotes)
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same (Evolution Quotes)
A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind (Evolution Quotes)
The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can’t stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution (Evolution Quotes)
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act (Evolution Quotes)
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking (Evolution Quotes)
There’s a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don’t because scientists don’t question whether evolution occurred (Evolution Quotes)
Evolution is not something to be feared. It’s to be celebrated, embraced, and understood (Evolution Quotes)
I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know? (Evolution Quotes)
We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? (Evolution Quotes)
All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution (Evolution Quotes)
Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them (Evolution Quotes)
Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more (Evolution Quotes)