Evolution Quotes - Page 37

• Pain by itself is merely pain,
  but the experience of pain couples with an understanding
  that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering.
  Suffering can be endured because
  there is a reason for it that is worth the effort.
  What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul?

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Couple, Effort

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 25, 2015

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• Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then reading about the history and evolution of Gods. There were many different Gods: the God of war, the God of peace, the God of love, which was more like the people that invented them. They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created floods when they didn't like the way things are going. This didn't come through as superior intelligence.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Reading, Sacrifice

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• The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.

  Jacque Fresco

  Responsibility, Civilization, Effort

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• When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species

  Jacque Fresco

  Technology, Development, Failing

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• Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

  Gerry Mulligan

  Two, Twenties, Three

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• People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

  Gerry Mulligan

  People, Innovation, Use

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• It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Lying, Men, Choices

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2000). “To Be Human”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same currents that produced birds from dust and poetry from rocks produce egos from ids and sages from egos.

  Ken Wilber

  Rocks, Dust, Bird

  Ken Wilber (2000). “Integral Psychology”, p.192, Shambhala Publications

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• The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

  Nicholas Roerich

  Beauty, Knowledge, Knowing

  Nicholas Roerich (1990). “Heart of Asia: Memoirs from the Himalayas”, p.1, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

  Rene Dubos

  Mother, Eugenics, Shelter

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• The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Giving, Doe

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• Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened.

  Brian Solis

  Technology, Doe, Digital

  Brian Solis (2014). “The Brian Solis Digital Reader”, p.378, John Wiley & Sons

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• I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

  Frans de Waal

  Caring, Empathy, Intellectual

  Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.41, Penguin

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• Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

  Lynn Margulis

  Tree, Earth, Linear

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

  Lynn Margulis

  Loss, Wings, Population

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• Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Mean, Doe, World

  Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Unique, Icons, Issues

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• When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Sight, Agreement, Littles

  "Evolution: Bringing Molecules into the Fold". Work by Simon Conway Morris, January 7, 2000.

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• Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Men, Mind, Evolution Of Man

  George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press

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• The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Confused, Stressed, Atheism

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• The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the population may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end Biston Betularia.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Dark, Light, Survival

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• We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are told, often enough, that the doctrine is founded upon evidence, and that indeed this evidence is henceforward above all verification, as well as being immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience; but we are left entirely in the dark on the crucial question wherein, precisely, this evidence consists.

  Wolfgang Smith

  Mean, Dark, Doctrine

  Dr. Wolfgang Smith (2015). “Teilhardism And The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”, p.13, TAN Books

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• You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

  Karel Appel

  Children, Forget, Forget It

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• There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

  Robert Jastrow

  Bangs, Density, Matter

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• And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Believe, Facts, Ancestry

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