E Quotes
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“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.”
Source: The science fiction of Mark Twain
“Evolution is the life-force of metaphysics and spirituality.”
“Evolution is the long blur, a constant and living flow of branching relationships. One thing is always connected to another and another. Having no regard for our love of labels and organization, life rolls on as a continual stream of organic matter. The important thing about the origin of the human brain is not pinpointing some specific time, event, or fossil to declare a beginning in order to satisfy our desire for order. What matters is that we understand the process from which it emerged and how deeply rooted the modern human brain is to its past.”
Source: Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser
“Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!”
“Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.”
“Evolution is the only constant.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, and so you see what is. Even in looking at ourselves, what we really are is essentially vessels for our DNA that keeps evolving through time. So seeing that and embracing that reality, and thinking of everything as kind of this perpetual motion machine in which you embrace reality - you don't wish it was different. You realize that it's your puzzle to interact with. You interact with it well, you evolve yourself.”
“Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).”
“Evolution is the secret for the next step.”
“Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.”
Source: Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
“Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'”
“Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.”
“Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in life itself. What stunned me about seasteading is that it's a technology for variation and selection in governance itself. The reason some two hundred nation-states do a poor job of governing seven billion people is that they don't vary, and people don't select.”
“Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.”
“Evolution is your solution.”
“Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.”
Source: God is Not Great
“Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.”
“Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.”
“Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having.”
“Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?”
“Evolution leads the way through desire.”
“Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.”
“Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.”
“Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.”
“Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.”
“Evolution never looks to the future.”
“Evolution never promised happiness only progress. Dopamine is the compass that keeps the species moving, even when the soul wants to rest.”
Source: Dopamine: The Silent Architect of Desire, Discipline, and Meaning
“Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“Evolution occurred in scientific progress as it happened in nature: a positive trait was passed along, then proliferated; obsolete characteristics withered away, and the technology and the organization evolved into something new.”
Source: Hidden Figures
“Evolution occurs in the world of time and space and form, whereas Spirit's primordial nature is finally timeless and Formless, prior to the of evolution but not other to it. We do not find Spirit or Emptiness by reaching some evolutionary Omega point in time, but rather by stepping off the cycle of time and evolution altogether (or ceasing to contract into it).”
Source: The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad
“Evolution of apes to human begins with one person disposing of their flag in a museum.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.”
Source: The Future Evolution of Man: The Divine Life on Earth
“Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.”
“Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the wolf was immaterial even in morals. This matter had been discussed for ages without scientific result. La Fontaine and other fabulists maintained that the wolf, even in morals, stood higher than man; and in view of the late civil war, Adams had doubts of his own on the facts of moral evolution:”
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.”
“EVOLUTION
Our whole universe is constantly evolving.
Entire stars disappear and new ones take their place.
From the bones of one planet, another is born.
Whole constellations disappear
in the blink of an eye leaving
just stardust in their wake.
What makes you believe
that your soul’s journey,
your soul’s evolution will
be any less painless?”
Source: Your Soul is a River
“Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution”
Source: Canadian Stories
“Evolution,' proclaimed the Rev. Daniel Miner Gordon during his inaugural lecture at Presbyterian College in Halifax, 'with its concept of growth rather than mechanism, of life working from within rather than a power constructing from without, helps further illustrate the method of Him who is the life of all that lives.' Seen in this way, evolution gave evidence of God's existence and watchful Providence; it revealed that the Creator was omniscient and omnipresent. Christian evolution implied a God of immanence, a God who dwelled within and constantly guided the natural world. This contrasted sharply with the orthodox view of a transcendent God who ruled the world from afar and touched it only by the occasional intervention in nature or history - a miracle. It now seemed that God was within nature and history, and close to humankind. Moreover, God the harsh judge had been banished by scientific understanding. It was understood that God was an active benevolent spirit. Some of the mystery had been lifted. Evolution had cast new light upon nature, the destiny of humanity, and the ways of God. It seemed to have provided a more inspiring and certain Christian world-view. Ironically, the clergy could base their arguments regarding the existence and nature of God on science, the source of so much doubt regarding the truth of Christianity.”
Source: Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850-1940
“Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.”
“Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.”
“Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group - in other words, mongrelized.”
“Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.”
Source: The Legacy
“Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.”
Source: The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction
“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.”
“Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.”
Source: Why Evolution Is True
“Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.”
“Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.”
Source: Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist
“Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.”