Best evolution & made Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.”

Has Beens Art Made Different Steps Style Painting Evolution Ideals Different Styles

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Theology made no provision for evolution.”

Made Evolution Theology Provision

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when He said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4). Adam and Eve didn't come on the scene after billions of years of mutations and evolution. No. God created them all the way back in the beginning-just like Moses reported in the Book of Genesis.”

“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.”

Source: Education and the Social Order

“Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained.”

Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

“We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.”

Made Whole Evolution Evolve Divides Smallest Totality

Book:First Principles

Source: First Principles

“We invent mind-space inside our own heads as well as the heads of others ... we assume these 'spaces' without question. They are a part of what it is to be conscious. Moreover, things that in the physical-behavioural world that do not have a spatial quality are made to have such in consciousness. Otherwise we cannot be conscious of them.”

World Mind Wells Made Space Consciousness Quality Evolution Conscious Assuming Spatial

Author:Julian Jaynes

“I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.”

Ifs Mind Humans Made Can Do Products Huge Evolution Accounts Explanation Human Mind Artificial Intelligence Mentality Artificial Miraculous Assembly Artifacts Macro

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.”

“It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.”

Made Ends Seems Earth Evolution Discovery Contact Made It Contracts Humankind

Author:Paul Horowitz

“We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.”

Way Years Made Millions Imagine Evolution Creatures Ocean Benefits Discovery Fantastic Representing Compounds

Author:Edith Widder

“Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.”

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Author:Ken Ham

“In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.”

“The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.”

Knows Men Humans Made Race Knowing Evolution Punishment Human Race Wickedness Knowing God Greatest Success Foreseen Deluge

Author:Voltaire

“God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.”

Men Made Done Five Creation Evolution Praise Creation Of Man

Author:Christopher Morley

“In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Wells Littles Made Might Spirit Social Natural Brain Destiny Fields Ignorance Evolution Triumph Meaning Of Life Spite Frontiers Astonishing Natural Science Little Man

Author:Wilder Penfield

“Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Made Asks Process Answers Animal Moral Doubt Evolution Fit Perfection Tigers Admirable Affirmative Questionable Blake Moral Perfection

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.”

Way Believe Made Said States Belief Stage Products Development Evolution Prove Evidence Argument Species Conclusion Blasphemy Biologist Implicit Deviousness

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters, is that, for an understanding of the evolution of modern man, we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution. If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is he manuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?”

Source: The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition

“Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.”

People Thinking Men Wells Made God Courses Black White Animal Tree Evolution Errors Fishes Sand Consideration White Man Gorillas

Author:Charles Mingus

“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.”

“Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.”

“Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.”

Men Years Made Two Done Play Home Care Kids Purpose Roles He Man Revolution Evolution Needed Hundred Years Ago Busy Productions Connected Units Farming Industrial Revolution

Author:Peter Buffett

“Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who commit to moving forward their own individual and personal evolution by embracing and demonstrating behaviors that serve to awaken the species to who and what human beings really are Individuations of Divinity, and how that may be made manifest in our experience.”

“The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.”

People Made Real Challenges Evolution Cooking Weekend Cool Things Cool People

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”

“Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?”

Made Important Religion Evolution Theology Revelations Biblical Provision

Author:E. O. Wilson

“With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.”

Ifs Trying Wells Kind Made Enough Shows Eye Social Results Blood Tears Evolution Conscience Mirrors Deny Passing Passings Colour Salt Reserves

Author:Jose Saramago

“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.”

Ifs Men Years Made Stills Two Eye Dog Evolution Red Breaths Green Distance Terror Flesh Teeth Despite Meals Owners Wilderness Yellow Stink Gleam Nuisance Poke Flicker Campfire

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.”

Made Theory Evolution Holes Cheese Swiss Dams Theory Of Evolution Swiss Cheese

Author:Eoin Colfer

“We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.”

Has Beens Made Self Events Evolution Discovery Self Discovery Cosmos Exploration Cosmic Tied Ashes Voyages Stellar

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.”

Humans Made Helping Poor Steps Poverty Society Evolution Weak Steps Forward Ending Poverty Human Evolution

Author:Maria Montessori

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

Made Evolution Ideals Available Engineers Components Jury Rigged Orchids

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.”

Ifs World Made Evolution Fit Endure

Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.”

“It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?”

“The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.”

World Firsts Doe Made Shows Science Change Animal Creation Evolution Mutation Epicurean

Author:Plutarch

“The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.”

Source: The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

“The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.”

Ifs Men Made Real Use Science Effort Accepting Plans Effects Acceptance Development Evolution Truth Is Proof Beast Hypothesis God Image Real Questions

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.”

Ifs Humans Persons Made Ideas Purpose Water Animal Possibility Months Evolution Needed One Day Miracle Eight Odd Swim Flood Miraculous Eleven Ark

Author:Mark Twain

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.”

“I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.”

Thinking Children Made Stills Choices Parent Evolution Basketball

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.”

Thinking World Made Humanity Evil Cases Atheism Evolution Disease Harder Mad Threat Positive Atheism Aids Cows Viruses Fashionable Apocalyptic Human Evolution Smallpox Mad Cow Disease

Author:Richard Dawkins

“You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.”

Way Should Believe Humans May Made Important Evolution Mess Chimpanzees

Author:Jane Goodall

“Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.”

Ifs Made Universe Existence Creation Evolution Periods Six Ordinary Consequence Difficulty Appearance Former Volition Conceiving

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Set aside the many competing explanations of the big bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization - that something transcendent started it all - which has hard-science types... using terms like "miracle."”

Made Hard Bigs Term Type Evolution Miracle Realization Explanation Cosmos Competing Bangs Transcendent

Author:Gregg Easterbrook

“Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.”

Made Father Imagination Impossible Evolution Draws Criticism Species Conclusion Firm Paris Incomplete Skulls Lucy Plasters

Author:Richard Leakey

“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.”

Made Helping Law Lying Results Wonder Knowing Path Happened Evolution Circumstances Mass Balls Blind Intention Monsters Planning Hills Giants Spite Flakes Snowball Foreseeing

Author:Mark Twain

“The creationists have this creator who is evil, who is small-minded, who is malevolent, and who is not very bright and can't even get his science right. Creationists have made their creator in their own image, in my view.”

Made Evil Views Evolution Creator Creationism

Author:Ian Plimer

“Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.”

Has Beens Made Earth Science Natural Common Theory Evolution Unique Framework Geology Astounded

Book:Earth Evolution and Its Facial Expression

Source: Earth Evolution and Its Facial Expression

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