Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology. Votes: 5
Steven PinkerEvolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. Votes: 3
Marilyn vos SavantEvolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. Votes: 3
Albert HofmannEvolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanEvolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening. Votes: 3
Richard DawkinsEvolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood. Votes: 3
Sylvia EarleThat's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution Votes: 3
Haruki MurakamiEvolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. Votes: 3
Richard DawkinsEvolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept. Votes: 3
John MarburgerEvolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. Votes: 3
Dan SimmonsEvolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? Votes: 3
Stephen BaldwinEvolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheRevolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Votes: 3
Marjane SatrapiEvolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together. Votes: 3
William Jennings BryanEvolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door. Votes: 3
Ivan ReitmanEvolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. Votes: 3
Alfred Lord TennysonEvolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiI've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know? Votes: 3
Brock LesnarEvolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. Votes: 3
Stephen Jay GouldEvolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. Votes: 3
Edmund Beecher WilsonEvolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth. Votes: 3
Julian Huxley[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science. Votes: 3
Stephen Jay GouldThe Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. Votes: 3
Eoin ColferNo man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top. Votes: 3
William Henry DrummondThe first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. Votes: 3
Albert SchweitzerWe are not saying that Evolution can't exist, only that it is guided by His Noodly Appendage. Votes: 3
Bobby HendersonEvolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. Votes: 3
Richard DawkinsEvolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity. Votes: 3
Bill NyeIn the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. Votes: 3
C. S. LewisEvolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God Votes: 3
PythagorasTeaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate. Votes: 2
Bill NyeAll evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. Votes: 2
George Bernard ShawThe worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. Votes: 2
Phyllis SchlaflyScientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. Votes: 2
Jean PiagetMost species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. Votes: 2
Terry PratchettRandom chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw Votes: 1
Robert A. HeinleinHumanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm. Votes: 1
Marty RubinChange happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it. Votes: 1
Eric Micha'el LeventhalSaying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself. Votes: 1
Idries ShahNew mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired. Votes: 1
Lynn MargulisBecause you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing. Votes: 1
Criss JamiSaying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety. Votes: 1
Idries ShahDefinitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. Votes: 1
Idries Shah...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire") Votes: 1
William S. WilsonThe hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people. Votes: 1
Swami Dhyan GitenObsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. Votes: 1
Stephen Jay GouldThe best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination. Votes: 1
Homer W. SmithNatural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. Votes: 1
Ronald A. FisherBoth theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside Votes: 1
Thomas NagelSaying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding. Votes: 1
Idries ShahNow times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. Votes: 1
Arthur C. ClarkeThe evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own. Votes: 1
Eric Micha'el LeventhalWe shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Votes: 1
Albert EinsteinWhat is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls? Votes: 1
Terry Tempest WilliamsA wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody. Votes: 1
Michael Bassey JohnsonEvil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it. Votes: 1
Shannon L. AlderWhat you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway. Votes: 1
Idries ShahEvery time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator. Votes: 1
David Rains WallaceNature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. Votes: 1
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillLaziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. Votes: 1
Idries ShahNow, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. Votes: 1
Duane T. GishStephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God". Votes: 1
Stephen HawkingThe next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind. Votes: 1
Vironika TugalevaA curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. Votes: 1
Jacques MonodBut one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. Votes: 1
Robert A. HeinleinInnovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time. Votes: 1
Marc JacobsThe challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them. Votes: 1
Darrell CalkinsNot to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests. Votes: 1
Idries ShahThe problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution Votes: 1
Lance ParkinIn the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished. Votes: 1
Idries ShahWhen it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message. Votes: 1
Kat LahrHis mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing Votes: 1
Criss JamiANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE). Votes: 1
Idries ShahBut the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. Votes: 1
Idries ShahIn the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. Votes: 1
Frederick Winslow TaylorI do not derive out of the evolution, but the act of creativity inside of it! Votes: 1
Vishwanath S JWe have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. Votes: 1
Lily TomlinSufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. Votes: 1
Idries ShahScience can neither prove nor disprove Scripture; it can hope only to begin to understand it. Votes: 1
Ron BrackinWhenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. Votes: 1
James D. CarswellThere is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. Votes: 1
Julian HuxleyThe art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillAn old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) Votes: 1
Idries ShahAnyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes. Votes: 1
Shannon L. AlderAlready at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become Votes: 1
Jean RostandMan is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind. Votes: 1
George Gaylord SimpsonInner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. Votes: 1
Idries ShahThe best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried Votes: 1
Richard DawkinsMan has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them. Votes: 1
Emil A. ZafirovI believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. Votes: 1
Criss JamiNevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. Votes: 1
H. L. MenckenThere are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillA totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself. Votes: 1
Jacques MonodMediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. Votes: 1
Idries ShahOne of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. Votes: 1
Idries ShahDeep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore. Votes: 1
Idries ShahLife is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillWhat shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes? Votes: 1
Richard DawkinsLove only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Votes: 1
Brian TracyPerhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey. Votes: 1
Loren EiseleyLife is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. Votes: 1
Kamal RavikantIt is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished. Votes: 1
Criss JamiWhen humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all. Votes: 1
Idries ShahSaying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr. Votes: 1
Idries ShahThe Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. Votes: 1
Idries ShahEverything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything. Votes: 1
Tony SamaraAll we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either. Votes: 1
G.K. ChestertonThe more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part. Votes: 1
L.J. VanierThe moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls. Votes: 1
Aleksandra NinkovicA Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. Votes: 1
Idries ShahIt has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn. Votes: 1
Idries ShahThe cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Votes: 1
Carl SaganI am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind. Votes: 1
Shannon L. AlderNot only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution. Votes: 1
Andrew CarnegieThe level of evolution in this world is not exactly high.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellA vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.
Maria MontessoriAll the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
William Jennings BryanThe first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.
Holmes Rolston IIINothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution
David AttenboroughNo biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.
G. Ledyard StebbinsEveryone goes through their evolution and I go through mine and you go through yours.
Michelle VisageYou know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?
Christine O'DonnellProtecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
Leonardo DiCaprioHigher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.
Bryan KestI feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians.
Daniel RadcliffeThe final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it.
Henry M. MorrisHuman vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
Richard DawkinsIn ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.
Abdellatif LaabiImpermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.
Deepak ChopraI will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.
John B. S. HaldaneIn order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.
Forrest GriffinCoercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
Paramahansa YoganandaAlthough God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.
Ann CoulterForget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
Damien FaheySuffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Eckhart TolleThere is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator-greed motivating evolution.
Oliver StoneI think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.
Bela FleckI see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
John Henry NewmanThermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.
Ludwig BoltzmannA mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
Berkeley BreathedOur aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.
Karl PopperThe upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.
Roger Wolcott SperryWe are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.
Sheena IyengarBy the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
David QuammenA close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.
Nils Heribert-NilssonArt is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.
Robert WarrenThat man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
William OslerThere ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.
Duane AllmanThe causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAnother possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.
Daniel LevitinI have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.
Errol WhiteCreativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.
Guy ClaxtonYou have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.
Karel AppelWe are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.
Barbara Marx HubbardMan is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.
Corneliu E. GiurgeaThe causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAtheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.
Ray ComfortDie Evolution hat aus dem Affen einen Menschen gemacht, die Revolution aus dem Menschen einen Affen.
Senecio, Lucius AnnaeusThe consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution. Votes: 3 Stephen LaBerge
There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released. Votes: 3 Beck
There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them. Votes: 2 Sundar Pichai
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. Votes: 3 Deepak Chopra
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution. Votes: 3 Stephen LaBerge
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. Votes: 2 Oscar Wilde
Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document. Votes: 2 Al Franken
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. Votes: 1 Reed Hastings
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century Votes: 3 Ronald Fisher
Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization. Votes: 3 Kumar Mangalam Birla
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture. Votes: 4 William Irwin Thompson
I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. Votes: 1 Reed Hastings
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. Votes: 3 Robert Briffault
Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument. Votes: 3 Vishnudevananda Saraswati
I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors. Votes: 1 Taylor Swift
To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. Votes: 3 Jean Shinoda Bolen
Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably. Votes: 3 Leonard Susskind
The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action. Votes: 3 John O. Brennan
I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me. Votes: 4 Robert Frost
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution. Votes: 3 Max Heindel
It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution. Votes: 3 Henry Petroski
We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution. Votes: 3 Peter Sunde