E Quotes
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“Evolution is a tinkerer.”
“Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation. If you think about it, before Darwin, we hadn't the foggiest idea of how we came into being. Now we do. It's still such an exciting idea that it is well worth everybody understanding it.”
“Evolution is about reason optimizing itself, and it has to do so through its myriad, competing monadic nodes, which include all of us. It is the hardest rational task conceivable, the ultimate, cosmic, Rubik's Cube.”
Source: The Book of Mind: Seeking Gnosis
“Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.”
“Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.”
“Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.”
Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
“Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.”
Source: First Principles
“Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.”
Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
“Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.”
“Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.”
“Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.”
“Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.”
“Evolution is brutal. It does not have a heart for mercy.”
Source: Quantraz
“Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we are outcomes of natural selection; we got here because we inherited traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, find mates, and reproduce. This momentous fact explains our deepest strivings: why having a thankless child is sharper than a serpent's tooth, why it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, why we do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light”
“Evolution is cleverer than you are.”
“Evolution is evolution - and it's happened before us and will continue after we're gone. But, what's taking place now is much more than change for the sake of change. The socialization of content creation, consumption and participation, is hastening the metamorphosis that transforms everyday people into participants of a powerful and valuable media literate society.”
“Evolution is faith, a religion.”
“Evolution is false, the tree of life proves it. The Big Bang is false, equations prove it. God is false, the Bible proves it.”
Source: Originemology
“Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.”
“Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.”
Source: The feminine eye
“Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.”
“Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.”
“Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.”
“Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.”
“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual organisms don't evolve; populations do. Nature doesn't give a damn about individuals. The only role we play in evolution is surviving long enough to give birth to offspring who are slightly different from us. Some of our offspring will prosper in a changing environment, and some of them will not. As for us individuals, once we've reproduced, nature has no more use for us. We perish along with our ill-adapted young. Death has always been an essential factor in species survival.
Now consider the human race. We are a partial exception to the rule. Unlike other species, we have developed culture. Instead of adapting to a changing environment biologically, we can sometimes adapt to it culturally. If an Ice Age comes along, we don't need to grow fur on our bodies if we invent the fur coat. Culture allows us to adapt to almost any environment, including the harshest, like space. In fact, our cultural adaptation is so robust that it all but obviates the need to evolve biologically.
We are so good at adapting to changing conditions with our knowledge and technology that we may deceive ourselves into believing that we are above nature. But only a fools believes that. Nature always has the last word. A star in our neighborhood could go supernova and wipe out all life in our solar system, and no amount of culture could save us from that. That, I believe, is the main reason you want to seed humanity throughout the galaxy. So as not to have all our eggs in one basket...
The chief difference between biological and cultural adaptation is that while biological evolution doesn't care about individuals, cultural evolution does, often at the expense of the species. Look at how many times we've nearly wiped ourselves out through cultural means: the nuclear bomb, pollution, climate change, the Outrage. We can't seem to help ourselves. Look at what we've done: we've made individuals all but immortal, even when it means we can have no more children. In one stroke, we've eliminated the two key ingredients of evolution: offspring and death. From a biological perspective, we're skating on mighty thin ice.
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...as long as the individual reigns supreme, there's a finite limit to our survival.
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We need a means for the individual, not just the species, to participate in biological evolution, and that's what my project is all about. We need to be able to let our biological bodies die, to have offspring that are molded by the changing needs of the environments we find ourselves in, and yet to serially inhabit these bodies as the same individual. That means we need to be able to move our minds from one body to the next.
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Mine is a singularity in which the obsolete individual is invited to cross over to the new, not simply to die out. The existing person need not die to make room for the newcomer. Anyone can play.”
Source: Mind Over Ship
“Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)
“Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.”
“Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.”
Source: What is Life?
“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.”
“Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.”
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.”
“evolution is not final; the future exceeds every number you can imagine: it is the courage to continue that counts towards that evolution.”
Source: A Brief Introduction to Unravelling Complexity
“Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.”
“Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.”
“Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.”
Source: Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
“Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.”
Source: William Jennings Bryan's Last Message: A Reprint of His Famous Closing Arguments for the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, Undelivered and Posthumously Published
“Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.”
“Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.”
“Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.”
“Evolution is predicated on action, inaction leads to extinction.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ...and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution today.”
“Evolution is relative, we can’t disintegrate our evolution with technology. Both need to evolve together.”
Source: Quantraz
“Evolution is smarter than you are.”
“Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.”
“Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.”
“Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.”
Source: The Essential Mary Midgley
“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.”
“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here.”
“Evolution is the Law of Life
Number is the Law of the Universe
Unity is the Law of God”