Human Evolution Quotes - Page 3

• Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Would Be, Visionaries

  "Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013". www.vulture.com. February 9, 2013.

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• Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

  Steven Raichlen

  Fire, Cooking, Way

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Support, Evolution

  "Alanis Morissette: 'I still have PTSD from the Jagged Little Pill era. It was a profound violation'". Interview with Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Loyalty, Peace, Rhyming

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Country, Fundamentalist Religion, United States

  "Why Evolution is True". Book by Jerry A. Coyne, 2009.

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• Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

  Jean Berko Gleason

  Acquisition, Evolution, Language

  "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 3, 2011.

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• Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

  Will Rogers

  Teaching, Science, Monkeys

  In 'Saturday Review' 25 August 1962 'A Rogers Thesaurus'

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• It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Mad Cow Disease, Evil

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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• We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Moon, Thinking, Mars

  Source: collider.com

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• Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

  R. D. Laing

  Views, Oneness, Progress

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• 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Ironic

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.18, Bantam

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• Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.

  James D. Watson

  Jobs, Moving, Heart

  James D. Watson (2001). “A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society”, p.229, OUP Oxford

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• An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, History, Perfection

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.66, 谷月社

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• When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dark, Men, Air

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• We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

  African Spir

  Men, Goal, Moral

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

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• The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Elements, Kevin

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

  Arthur Keith

  Momentum, Evolution, Human Nature

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Healthy areas that are richest in information are those areas in the wild where we can get all the information that's available to us within our human hearing range. The most valuable information throughout human evolution has been faint sounds. We tend to think in our modern world that if it's loud, if it grabs our attention, it's important. We get a lot of that in advertising. But in nature, it's the faintest sound that's important; it has determined, in the past of our ancestors, perhaps, if they will live or die. Faint sounds are the earliest clues of newly arriving information.

  Gordon Hempton

  Thinking, Past, Healthy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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