Quotes about Evolution

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology. Votes: 5

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology. Votes: 5

Evolution is a tinkerer. Votes: 3

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Votes: 3

Evolution is faith, a religion. Votes: 3

Uniformity and Evolution are one. Votes: 3

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable. Votes: 3

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible. Votes: 3

Evolution leads the way through desire. Votes: 3

Evolution never looks to the future. Votes: 3

Evolution is smarter than you are. Votes: 3

Evolution is cleverer than you are. Votes: 3

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion. Votes: 3

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults Votes: 3

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. Votes: 3

Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional. Votes: 3

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability. Votes: 3

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest. Votes: 3

Evolution is the secret for the next step. Votes: 3

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress. Votes: 3

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress. Votes: 3

Evolution is a religion; it is not science! Votes: 3

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction. Votes: 3

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion. Votes: 3

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly. Votes: 3

Evolution is true, but does that make it right? Votes: 3

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes. Votes: 3

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution Votes: 3

Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself. Votes: 3

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence. Votes: 3

Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis. Votes: 3

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Votes: 3

Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival. Votes: 3

Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite. Votes: 3

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source. Votes: 3

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Votes: 3

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Votes: 3

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. Votes: 3

Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go. Votes: 3

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. Votes: 3

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun. Votes: 3

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. Votes: 3

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. Votes: 3

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet. Votes: 3

Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having. Votes: 3

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works Votes: 3

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind. Votes: 3

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change. Votes: 3

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow. Votes: 3

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps! Votes: 3

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it. Votes: 3

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept. Votes: 3

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. Votes: 3

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood. Votes: 3

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. Votes: 3

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. Votes: 3

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution Votes: 3

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then. Votes: 3

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening. Votes: 3

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese. Votes: 3

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together. Votes: 3

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door. Votes: 3

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology. Votes: 3

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. Votes: 3

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? Votes: 3

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. Votes: 3

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Votes: 3

I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know? Votes: 3

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. Votes: 3

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. Votes: 3

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. Votes: 3

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth. Votes: 3

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science. Votes: 3

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. Votes: 3

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me. Votes: 3

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution. Votes: 3

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution. Votes: 3

Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more. Votes: 3

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. Votes: 3

We are not saying that Evolution can't exist, only that it is guided by His Noodly Appendage. Votes: 3

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. Votes: 3

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top. Votes: 3

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. Votes: 3

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. Votes: 3

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. Votes: 3

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith. Votes: 3

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity. Votes: 3

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith. Votes: 3

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations. Votes: 3

Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God Votes: 3

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim. Votes: 3

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? Votes: 3

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. Votes: 3

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. Votes: 3

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. Votes: 3

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process Votes: 3

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. Votes: 3

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future. Votes: 3

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. Votes: 3

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well. Votes: 3

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. Votes: 3

Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers. Votes: 3

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. Votes: 3

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future. Votes: 3

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe. Votes: 3

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast. Votes: 3

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. Votes: 3

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences Votes: 3

Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul! Votes: 3

So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video. Votes: 3

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. Votes: 3

Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts. Votes: 3

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. Votes: 3

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. Votes: 3

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. Votes: 3

Evolution is your solution. Votes: 2

There are no shortcuts in evolution. Votes: 2

Islands are natural workshops of evolution. Votes: 2

Some call it evolution, And others call it God. Votes: 2

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. Votes: 2

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution. Votes: 2

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution. Votes: 2

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate. Votes: 2

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. Votes: 2

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. Votes: 2

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. Votes: 2

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. Votes: 2

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. Votes: 2

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. Votes: 2

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. Votes: 2

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. Votes: 2

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. Votes: 2

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. Votes: 2

Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex. Votes: 2

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Votes: 2

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. Votes: 2

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. Votes: 2

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution. Votes: 2

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Votes: 2

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours. Votes: 2

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution. Votes: 2

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact. Votes: 2

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass. Votes: 2

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. Votes: 2

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein. Votes: 2

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed. Votes: 2

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. Votes: 2

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? Votes: 2

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: 2

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine. Votes: 2

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.' Votes: 2

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. Votes: 2

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution. Votes: 2

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. Votes: 2

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision. Votes: 2

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference. Votes: 2

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees. Votes: 2

Life is chemistry, not biology. Votes: 1

Insularity plus time yields divergence. Votes: 1

A four-letter alphabet called DNA. Votes: 1

No practice exists in isolation. Votes: 1

Make mankind your dwelling place. Votes: 1

We are; therefore, we evolve. Votes: 1

Change lives on the horizon. Votes: 1

Are we being good ancestors? Votes: 1

The(re is no) End Votes: 1

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures & wisdom progresses. Votes: 1

Patience is the food of understanding. Votes: 1

That's not me, Honey. That's evolution! Votes: 1

Given enough time, even evolution evolves. Votes: 1

Verbal arguments should always be suspect. Votes: 1

...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution.... Votes: 1

As you embrace Consciousness, you embrace Perfection. Votes: 1

Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death. Votes: 1

Life doesn't happen suddenly. It fades in. Votes: 1

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword. Votes: 1

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium. Votes: 1

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos. Votes: 1

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction. Votes: 1

We do not know how life began. Votes: 1

Where is your water? Know your garden. Votes: 1

To a good approximation, all species are insects. Votes: 1

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. Votes: 1

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. Votes: 1

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe. Votes: 1

The bigger the mistake the bigger the opportunity. Votes: 1

The Beloved is Always There, Actively Seeking You. Votes: 1

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself. Votes: 1

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. Votes: 1

The geologic column is a bunch of balarky. Votes: 1

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex. Votes: 1

The geologic cycle is a bunch of balarky. Votes: 1

In the end, only the truth will survive. Votes: 1

That is life's talent. To accept new things. Votes: 1

It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf. Votes: 1

Do not try to be humble: learn humility. Votes: 1

Saying of the ProphetSleepSleep is the brother of death. Votes: 1

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Votes: 1

The truth can do years of work in seconds. Votes: 1

What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter? Votes: 1

The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom. Votes: 1

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey Votes: 1

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future. Votes: 1

Let your fear drive you to evolve into greatness. Votes: 1

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. Votes: 1

What happens to the world when science stops evolving? Votes: 1

Words have to die if humans are to live. Votes: 1

Patience is a garment which has never worn out. Votes: 1

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple. Votes: 1

Society needs to evolve just as our DNA does. Votes: 1

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it. Votes: 1

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. Votes: 1

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work. Votes: 1

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. Votes: 1

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. Votes: 1

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities Votes: 1

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. Votes: 1

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop. Votes: 1

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications. Votes: 1

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. Votes: 1

It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl! Votes: 1

When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health? Votes: 1

GENESG raft of yourselfE endowmentN ew generationE volutionS urvival Kamil Ali Votes: 1

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence. Votes: 1

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation. Votes: 1

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. Votes: 1

Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm. Votes: 1

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years. Votes: 1

Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share. Votes: 1

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage. Votes: 1

Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them. Votes: 1

In The Newly Evolving World, Everyone Is Part Of The Collective. Votes: 1

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self. Votes: 1

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw Votes: 1

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul. Votes: 1

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. Votes: 1

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety. Votes: 1

Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself. Votes: 1

New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired. Votes: 1

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. Votes: 1

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing. Votes: 1

The practice is simple. Whatever you're doing, do that with total awareness. Votes: 1

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire") Votes: 1

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history. Votes: 1

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution. Votes: 1

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it. Votes: 1

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel. Votes: 1

The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change. Votes: 1

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'. Votes: 1

Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe. Votes: 1

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service Votes: 1

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything. Votes: 1

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people. Votes: 1

If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest. Votes: 1

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Votes: 1

If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly! Votes: 1

The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination. Votes: 1

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening. Votes: 1

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. Votes: 1

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding. Votes: 1

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. Votes: 1

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside Votes: 1

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all. Votes: 1

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'. Votes: 1

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace. Votes: 1

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back. Votes: 1

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. Votes: 1

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. Votes: 1

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Votes: 1

Every bet of evolution in history came with its built in bet of madness. Votes: 1

The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own. Votes: 1

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls? Votes: 1

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars. Votes: 1

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God". Votes: 1

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind. Votes: 1

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests. Votes: 1

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. Votes: 1

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. Votes: 1

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time. Votes: 1

The challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them. Votes: 1

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding Votes: 1

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. Votes: 1

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. Votes: 1

The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution Votes: 1

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished. Votes: 1

ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE). Votes: 1

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing Votes: 1

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. Votes: 1

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart. Votes: 1

When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message. Votes: 1

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters. Votes: 1

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi. Votes: 1

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. Votes: 1

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes. Votes: 1

For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew? Votes: 1

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love. Votes: 1

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway. Votes: 1

Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator. Votes: 1

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. Votes: 1

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. Votes: 1

We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress. Votes: 1

You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you. Votes: 1

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody. Votes: 1

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it. Votes: 1

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. Votes: 1

Science can neither prove nor disprove Scripture; it can hope only to begin to understand it. Votes: 1

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. Votes: 1

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. Votes: 1

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things. Votes: 1

I do not derive out of the evolution, but the act of creativity inside of it! Votes: 1

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. Votes: 1

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. Votes: 1

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. Votes: 1

Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole. Votes: 1

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. Votes: 1

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. Votes: 1

A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level. Votes: 1

The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed! Votes: 1

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. Votes: 1

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. Votes: 1

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. Votes: 1

Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true. Votes: 1

To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'. Votes: 1

A societal revolution is politically organic in nature. It can't be engineered. It has to be evolved. Votes: 1

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself. Votes: 1

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. Votes: 1

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth. Votes: 1

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) Votes: 1

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes. Votes: 1

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become Votes: 1

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. Votes: 1

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried Votes: 1

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them. Votes: 1

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind. Votes: 1

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. Votes: 1

There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming. Votes: 1

Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. Votes: 1

Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr. Votes: 1

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know. Votes: 1

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey. Votes: 1

Life is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you. Votes: 1

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal. Votes: 1

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people. Votes: 1

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve. Votes: 1

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all. Votes: 1

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished. Votes: 1

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression. Votes: 1

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom. Votes: 1

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes? Votes: 1

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. Votes: 1

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore. Votes: 1

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed Votes: 1

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper. Votes: 1

Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything. Votes: 1

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. Votes: 1

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Votes: 1

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. Votes: 1

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle. Votes: 1

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls. Votes: 1

Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale. Votes: 1

Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life. Votes: 1

We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion. Votes: 1

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either. Votes: 1

The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part. Votes: 1

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest. Votes: 1

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. Votes: 1

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. Votes: 1

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since Votes: 1

...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation. Votes: 1

...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts. Votes: 1

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Votes: 1

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'. Votes: 1

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. Votes: 1

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man. Votes: 1

In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose. Votes: 1

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived. Votes: 1

Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed. Votes: 1

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. Votes: 1

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good. Votes: 1

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. Votes: 1

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. Votes: 1

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds Votes: 1

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. Votes: 1

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution. Votes: 1

If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths? Votes: 1

When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee. Votes: 1

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind. Votes: 1

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn. Votes: 1

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Votes: 1

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step. Votes: 1

Revolution like evolution does not come about overnight. Evolution delivers on its promises but revolution rarely delivers on what was promised. Votes: 1

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. Votes: 1

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. Votes: 1

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive. Votes: 1

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. Votes: 1

As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree. Votes: 1

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Votes: 1

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.] Votes: 1

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara Votes: 1

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed. Votes: 1

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being. Votes: 1

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand. Votes: 1

Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections. Votes: 1

Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration. Votes: 1

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. Votes: 1

Evolutionists will continue to find missing links until all will be amiss for we will still ask how we got here Votes: 1

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. Votes: 1

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes. Votes: 1

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word. Votes: 1

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person. Votes: 1

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. Votes: 1

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment. Votes: 1

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed. Votes: 1

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule. Votes: 1

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God? Votes: 1

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for. Votes: 1

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love. Votes: 1

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Votes: 1

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable. Votes: 1

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. Votes: 1

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God. Votes: 1

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy. Votes: 1

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form. Votes: 1

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it? Votes: 1

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. Votes: 1

I Am: So all of your science is theory?Eve El utionist: There are no absolutes!I Am: Are you absolutely sure? Votes: 1

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. Votes: 1

If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship. Votes: 1

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things. Votes: 1

However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization. Votes: 1

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001) Votes: 1

Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late. Votes: 1

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them. Votes: 1

Women, churchgoers, and conservative were more likely than men, nonchurch goers, and liberals to disagree with the reductionist (neural) account of human life. Votes: 1

(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then. Votes: 1

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe. Votes: 1

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms. Votes: 1

The slower frequencies are dropping away to be replaced by the faster, higher, more refined frequencies that are part of the Energetic Evolution. Votes: 1

Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so. Votes: 1

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program. Votes: 1

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion. Votes: 1

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them. Votes: 1

The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference. Votes: 1

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people. Votes: 1

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected? Votes: 1

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Votes: 1

As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life. Votes: 1

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend! Votes: 1

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. Votes: 1

DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him. Votes: 1

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher. Votes: 1

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. Votes: 1

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face. Votes: 1

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same. Votes: 1

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. Votes: 1

Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance. Votes: 1

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'. Votes: 1

Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone. Votes: 1

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. Votes: 1

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning. Votes: 1

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. Votes: 1

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. Votes: 1

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys. Votes: 1

A flower's structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don't know of any such reason why beautiful places attract humans. Votes: 1

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it. Votes: 1

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. Votes: 1

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself. Votes: 1

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity Votes: 1

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there. Votes: 1

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. Votes: 1

Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility; the possibility of one day being able to surpass even him. Votes: 1

When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian. Votes: 1

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right. Votes: 1

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. Votes: 1

t can be easily argued that all living things are conscious in some aspect, but many would agree that advanced consciousness like our own is unique. Votes: 1

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. Votes: 1

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours. Votes: 1

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee. Votes: 1

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not. Votes: 1

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them. Votes: 1

A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order. Votes: 1

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom. Votes: 1

Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation. Votes: 1

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. Votes: 1

My intention is not to define a perfect life and then cause an unhappy analysis of what you are not doing correctly or are incapable of doing. Votes: 1

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Votes: 1

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. Votes: 1

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. Votes: 1

By its nature, what you yearn for is most often intimidating. It produces, and itself is, a question, and one that is not easy to engage or answer. Votes: 1

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology. Votes: 1

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels. Votes: 1

Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse........ Votes: 1

What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different Votes: 1

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream. Votes: 1

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal. Votes: 1

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased. Votes: 1

What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less. Votes: 1

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run. Votes: 1

I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds! Votes: 1

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur. Votes: 1