Evolution Quotes - Page 36

• Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Team, Humanity, Transition

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• God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

  Thomas Keating

  Thinking, People, Events

  Thomas Keating (1997). “Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer”, p.52, A&C Black

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• It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Intelligent, Design, May

  "Humanism: Philosophical Essays". Book by F. C. S. Schiller, June 1903.

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• If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

  Kent Hovind

  Thinking, Brain, Chemicals

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• The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

  David Deutsch

  Niche, Problem, Genes

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• The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution.

  Azim Premji

  Years, Next, Initiative

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• The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinism, which says life evolved by an utterly unguided, undirected mechanism. If god directed the process of evolution, or rigged the universe to produce complex life, then that is not Darwinism - it is intelligent design.

  Michael Behe

  Intelligent, Opposites, Design

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• Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

  Robert J. Marks II

  Fall, Steel, Balls

  "Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks". Interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 3, 2010.

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• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Grief, Opportunity, Perception

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans and Douglas Abrams, p.xv, 2006.

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• The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Stories, Levels, Abstraction

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.1948, Penguin

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• Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Humble, Land, Heritage

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• The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.

  E. O. Wilson

  Beautiful, Men, Past

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• According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

  Ernst Mayr

  Firsts, Transformation, Existence

  "The Dynamics of Evolution: The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences". Book by Albert Somit and Steven Peterson, p. 21-48, "Speciational Evolution or Punctuated Equilibria", 1992.

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• Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.

  Ernst Mayr

  Generations, Variation, New Start

  "Toward a new philosophy of biology: observations of an evolutionist". Book by Ernst Mayr, p. 457, 1988.

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• Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.

  Ernst Mayr

  Gaps, Fossils, Facts

  Ernst Mayr (2001). “What Evolution is”, p.14, Basic Books

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• Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group - in other words, mongrelized.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Running, Long, Groups

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

  Guy Clark

  Mean, Trying, Guessing

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• Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

  Corneliu E. Giurgea

  Men, Years, Waiting

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• The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  People, Energy, Next Steps

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.498, Penguin

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• Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Self, Oneness

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• In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Life, Fighting, Keys

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2011

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• Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Reason, Being True

  Francis Collins (2008). “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that evolution, including the principle of natural selection, is one of the tools used by God to create mankind. Mankind is then a participant in the creation of the universe itself, so that we have a closed loop. I believe that there is a level on which science and religious metaphor are mutually compatible.

  Christopher Langan

  God, Religious, Believe

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• Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Meaningful, Light, Interesting

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