Evolution Quotes - Page 35

• I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

  Reed Hastings

  Thinking, Years, Television

  "Reed Hastings interview: 'Everybody would welcome a rival to Sky'". Interview with Dan Sabbagh, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.

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• Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Oil, Soul, Important

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.14, Black Irish Books

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• We need to attack the false foundation of autonomous human reasoning that leads to evolution and millions of years, and proclaim that God's revealed Word is authoritative and its history of the world is foundational to Christian morality and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Jesus, Years

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• Isn't it interesting how Christians are not afraid to teach their children about evolution?

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Children, Interesting

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• I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Healing, Rooms

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• Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.

  William Wallace Cook

  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

  Stella Gibbons

  Race, Years, Curious

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Drug, Growing

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• While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty soon enough became a seditious agent working against us … we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see … Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are – hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones

  Thomas Ligotti

  Soon Enough, Vision, Needs

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• We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.

  Michael Shermer

  Anatomy And Physiology, Paleontology, Molecular Biology

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

  Michael Shermer

  Epic, Age, Stories

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.161, Macmillan

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• I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Men, Years

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• It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

  David Attenborough

  Believe, Two, Historical

  "Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

  David Attenborough

  Light, World, Natural

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• The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Next Steps

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.20, New World Library

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• If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

  William Jennings Bryan

  Winning, Christianity, Ifs

  "The great defender" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.

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• At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Different Universes, Next

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• If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

  Susan Blackmore

  Religious, Way, Would Be

  "Life Lessons". www.theguardian.com. April 07, 2005.

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• Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Excellence

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Finals, Earth

  "The Hour Of God: Art of living".

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• Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Joy, Energy, Use

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• A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Pace, Life Is, Needed

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• So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

  Arthur Cayley

  Race, Principles, Development

  Arthur Cayley, Andrew Russell Forsyth (1963). “The collected mathematical papers of Arthur Cayley”

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• The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

  John Philip Sousa

  Men, Tails, Apes

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• Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Design, Growth, Transition

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