Jane Goodall Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

  Jane Goodall

  God, Spiritual, Compassion

• There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Believe, Thinking

• We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could change our behavior really quickly instead of over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then comes moral evolution, which means we're not frightfully far along with people. And maybe we end up with a spiritual evolution, which is this connectedness with the rest of the life forms on the planet.

  Jane Goodall

  Spiritual, Mean, Years

  "Exclusive Interview with Dr. Jane Goodall". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

• You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Important, May

  "Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall and Phillip L. Berman, 2000.

• ...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

  Jane Goodall

  Hurt, Fighting, Special

• I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Eye, Thinking

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L.Berman, 2000.

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