E Quotes
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“Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good,
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.”
“Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.”
“Evolution forged the entirety of life using only one tool: the mistake...”
Source: The Old Drift
“Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake.”
“Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus it has an inherent directionality, a secret impulse, toward increasing depth, increasing intrinsic value, increasing consciousness. In order for evolution to move at all, it must move in those directions-there's no place else for it to go!”
“Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.”
“Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.”
“Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.”
“Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who believe that every word in the Bible must be literally true, whatever such a claim might mean.”
Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.”
“Evolution has geared the human stress response to last about thirty seconds. It's enough time to facilitate fight or flight. Evolution has not adapted our brains or bodies to handle weeks or months of prolonged stress.”
Source: The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
“Evolution has its charms. People think harsh training has been its door, but in reality, it was easier to find. The door stood right before their eyes. Always.”
Source: The High Auction
“Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.”
“Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.”
“Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.”
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
“Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.”
“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.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.”
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to be earned in increments of fitness can now be had from pointless introspection. Aesthetics rise unbidden from a trillion dopamine receptors, and the system moves beyond modeling the organism. It begins to model the very process of modeling. It consumes evermore computational resources, bogs itself down with endless recursion and irrelevant simulations. Like the parasitic DNA that accretes in every natural genome, it persists and proliferates and produces nothing but itself. Metaprocesses bloom like cancer, and awaken, and call themselves I.”
Source: Blindsight
“Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.”
Source: The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty
“Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort to refute all religious claims concerning a creator - an effort that has also often attempted to suppress all scientific criticisms of Darwin's work.”
Source: For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery
“Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.”
Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“Evolution
Idea
Perspective
Word
Breaks into our code
Per-mutating atoms
Of our evolutionary Self-s
Our sensory navigating device
Accepts or rejects the impulse
Creating realities of our choice
A natural drift takes us from an amoeba to a human
A very determined choice takes us further
Allowing us
To squeeze our way through
To awake-n
To God and his gift of
Aware-ness”
Source: Art of 4 Elements
“Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.”
“Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.”
“Evolution in our careers is one of the most important things to learn and apply simultaneously as we earn. Without that, there is no door for growth.”
“Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in the biosphere.”
Source: Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology
“Evolution in the cognitive niche has endowed our species with remarkable abilities such as language, abstract reasoning, and sophisticated mentalizing. These species-typical innovations have been accompanied by rapid changes in brain structure and functionality. While adaptations such as language are hugely beneficial, they are also likley to carry some costs. A number of authors have argued that vulnerability to psychosis is one of those costs -the price our species pays for its unique set of cognitive skills. From this perspective, there are no individual fitness benefits to psychosis proneness; vulnerability to schizophrenia and other psychoses is a general byproduct of our evolved design, and unfortunate combinations of genetic and environmental factors determine the onset of a full-fledged disorder in some individuals.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.”
“Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.”
“Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.”
“Evolution is a fairy tale for adults”
“Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.”
“Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.”
“Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.”
“Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.”
“Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.”
Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure
“Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.”
“Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.”
“Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.”
“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!”
“Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat, [that] the Earth goes round the Sun. Both those are also theories, but they're theories that have never been disproved and never will be disproved.”
“Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.”
“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.”
“Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.”
“evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.”
Source: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science