Herbert Spencer Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Survival, Evolution

  'Principles of Biology' (1865) pt. 3, ch. 12, 164.

• If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Men, Cells

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.350

• Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Theory Of Evolution, Facts

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.389

• The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ideas, Atheism, Matter

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “First Principles: Great Philosopher”, p.304, 北戴河出版

• We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Evolution, Made, Evolve

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.559

• Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Ideas, Moral

  Herbert Spencer (1893). “Ethics of Individual Life”

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