Evolution Quotes

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

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

I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Evolution is your solution.

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

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

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

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

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

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

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

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.

We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

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

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

Good fashion is evolution, not revolution.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

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

I think everything in life is an evolution, isn't it?

There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

The final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.

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

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

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

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution