Evolution Quotes - Page 38

• I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.

  Colin Blakemore

  Thinking, Gmos, Worry

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• With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.

  Richard Courant

  Education, Reality, Men

  Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins (1979). “What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas and methods”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

  August Strindberg

  Failure, Mean, Progress

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• I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

  Jock Sturges

  Body, Humans, Fascinated

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils... I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Reading, Men

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.

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• Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.

  Norma Kamali

  Likes And Dislikes, Editing, Choices

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• I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution.

  B. B. Warfield

  Thinking, Needs, Creation

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• There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

  Andrew Schneider

  Purpose, World, Mud

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• Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.

  Phillip Lim

  Ideas, Design, Age

  "Phillip Lim Signed On as Target's Next Designer Collaboration" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Change, Years, Language

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Hands, Two, Creative

  "Essays with a Purpose".

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• If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

  Walter Lang

  Space, People, Leader

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• In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Cutting, Soul, Progress

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• The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

  Joel Silver

  Real, Mean, Gun

  "Interview With Exit Wounds Stars Steven Seagal, Jill Hennessy and Producer Joel Silver". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 15, 2001.

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• Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.

  William Bateson

  Faith, Time, Degrees

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• I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

  Mark Pincus

  Media, Firsts, Social Network

  "Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on the future of the company: part one". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

  Steven M. Greer

  Spiritual, Technology, People

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• In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.

  Rob Parker

  Motivational, Home, Mean

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• It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

  Rumi

  Animal, Intelligent, Purpose

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• There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Gun, Land

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• The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution.

  Douglass North

  Character, Government, Vision

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• People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Government, People

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• The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfillment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  World, Time Management, Life Is

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Fighting, Thinking, Evil

  P. D. Ouspensky (1988). “Talks With a Devil”, p.211, Library of Alexandria

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• Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future.

  Ralph Abraham

  Evil, Interesting, Choices

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