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“Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.”

Earth Space Evolution Elements Benefits Scripture Insignificant Specks

Author:Walter Lang

“Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.”

Levels Evolution Elements Innovation Yield

Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.”

Individual Evolution Elements Function Structure Tendencies Bondage

Book:Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality

Source: Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality

“It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main reason is, of course, the philosophical or spiritual element in this story. We know as little today about the secrets of Creation and evolution as we knew before, and it is not likely that we'll ever know much more. We'll have to be satisfied, as Kubrick was, respectfully admiring the potential for evolution within the mystery of the universe's creation.”

“The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.”

Humans Said Technology Evolution Elements Driving Kevin Human Evolution

Author:William Gibson

“The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.”

“Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!”

Spirit Humanity Fighting Asks Sides Progress Fields Evolution Elements Fairs Fingers Womens Rights Future Of Humanity

Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.”

Modern Evolution Elements Athlete Committed Brands Drivers Racing Ambassadors Racing Driver

Author:Charlie Kimball

“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...”

“I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.”

Years Universe Stars Generations Evolution Ten Elements Nuclear Billions Evolve Chemicals Indispensable Prerequisites Furnaces

Author:John Polkinghorne

“Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.”

Matter Life Is Spirit Existence Evolution Elements Constituents Manifold

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

Ifs Way Kind Matter Enough Body Today Jesus Stars Forget Evolution Elements Died Your Body Nuclear Iron Carbon Oxygen Things That Matter Stardust Furnaces Nitrogen

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss