Evolution Quotes - Page 34

• I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, School, Intelligent

  "2010 The Vote: K-12 Education". San Angelo Times, September 11, 2010.

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  The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

  Woody Guthrie

  Fall, Machines, Helping

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.

  Friedrich Engels

  Agreement, Civilization, Historical

  "Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works".

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• No science is ever frightening to Christians. Religious people don't need the science to come out any particular way on IQ or AIDS or sex differences any more than they need the science to come out any particular way on evolution...If evolution is true, then God created evolution.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Religious, Sex

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.277, Crown Forum

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• Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Love Is, Blood

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• The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.

  Keith Haring

  Trying, Doe, Natural

  Keith Haring, Kwong Chi Tseng (1986). “Keith Haring vue par Tseng Kwong Chi”

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• Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musical, Technique, Development

  Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

  John Fowles

  Men, Tree, Sailor

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• As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.

  Frans de Waal

  Mean, Later In Life, Empathy

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• So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstances—so far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Peaceful, Feminism

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.76, VM eBooks

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• In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an evolution which, as we now know, has been going on for millions, nay, hundreds of millions of years), has finally exhausted all the possibilities of producing virulent or contagious diseases - which does not seem very likely.

  Louis Pasteur

  Light, Years, Humanity

  "Louis Pasteur: The man and his theories" by Hilaire Cuny, translated by P. Evans. London: The Scientific Book Club, 1965.

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• Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

  Daniel Goleman

  Survival, Special, Emotion

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.436, Bantam

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• International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal free market principles of economics, democratic principles of politics, and a peaceful international system over other visions that other nations and peoples may have. It will last only as long as those who favor it retain the capacity to defend it.

  Robert Kagan

  Order, Long, Vision

  "America has made the world freer, safer and wealthier" by Robert Kagan, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Thinking, Hands, People

  "Creating Purpose" by Jen Grisanti, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

  Igor Markevitch

  Real, Play, One Day

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• Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution... It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup."

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Squares, Roots

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• People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  People, Anarchy, Social

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having.

  Richard Bandler

  Universe

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• The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Self, Growth, Purpose

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.

  Stanislav Grof

  Lying, Personality, Levels

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.219, SUNY Press

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• The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

  Michael Pollan

  Happy Life, Thinking, Unhappy

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.39, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own--and their children's--physical and mental abilities. Harris rightly deserves his reputation for fearlessly following his ethical arguments wherever they lead.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Technology, Careers

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• A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Men, Race, Evolution Of Man

  Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.92, RSP

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• Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

  Sergey Brin

  Mean, Technology, Tools

  Guest lecture at University of California, Berkeley, October 05, 2005.

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