Evolution Quotes - Page 40

• In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

  Russell Stannard

  Talking, Tree, Mind

  Russell Stannard (2000). “The God Experiment: Can Science Prove the Existence of God?”, p.162, Paulist Press

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• God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

  Steve Fowler

  God, Honesty, Editors

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• Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "America’s Darwin Problem". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Fabric Of Life

  "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.

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• The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.

  Marianne Williamson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Jesus

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• We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.

  Richard Reti

  Player, Mind, Gone

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• It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.

  Antony Flew

  Powerful, Dna, Years

  Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.75, InterVarsity Press

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• Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Destiny, Men, Astrology

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.195, Advaita Ashrama

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• Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Moving, Ideas, Important

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• We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.

  Thomas Berry

  Moving, Creativity, Appreciate

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• Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Theory Of Evolution, Facts

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.389

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• I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

  Jonas Salk

  Believe, Thinking, Intuition

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• Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Struggle, Science, Engineering

  "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" by S. Rajasekar, September 7, 2006.

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• When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

  Jonas Salk

  Errors, Speak, Reason

  "Man Evolving". Interview with Richard D. Heffner on The Open Mind, May 11, 1985.

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• I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

  Jonas Salk

  Errors, Evil, Triumph

  In Academy of Achievement interview, in San Diego, California, May 16, 1991.

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• If belief in evolution is a requirement to be a real scientist, it’s interesting to consider a quote from Dr. Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School:
  “In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at all.

  Marc Kirschner

  Real, Taken, School

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• Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

  Stuart Kauffman

  Enemy, Firsts, Ethics

  Stuart A. Kauffman (2010). “Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion”, p.260, Basic Books

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• Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations of organisms (you and me) that [happen during] the lifetime of a single individual. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next

  Douglas J. Futuyma

  Population, Generations, Definitions

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• In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.

  Douglas J. Futuyma

  Political, Population, Language

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• I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

  David Zindell

  Dream, Agony, Joy

  "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.

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• Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and reface our mistakes and defeats until we can learn from them. When we learn from the past, the wheel continues to move forward, towards growth and evolution. When we don’t, the wheel spins backward, and we are given another chance. If once more we squander the opportunity, the wheel continues its rotation towards devolution, or destruction.

  Robin Furth

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Historical, Development, Facts

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• We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

  Paul Gilding

  Growing Up, Answers, Want

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• Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather.
  Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your heavenly goal - the evolution of your soul - and you will find peace even while on earth.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Goal, Worry, Soul

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 09, 2016

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• The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Monsters, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

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