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“Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.”

Way Found Evolution Speed

Author:Jaron Lanier

“As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.”

Years Millions Sea Evolution Behavior Species Fishes Speed Defense Mechanism Prey Sharks Predator Camouflage Defense Mechanisms Apex Apex Predators

Author:Paul Watson

“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.”

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Author:Antonio Damasio

“A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!”

Revolution Evolution Speed Backwards Reactionaries High Speed

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you're all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now. (Starts blinking)”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.”

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Author:Charles R. Morris

“The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.”

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Book:The Evolution of the Human Intellect

Source: The Evolution of the Human Intellect

“i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.”

Source: The Contortionist's Handbook

“To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.”

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Author:D. James Kennedy

“Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.”

Mistake Evolution Economics Aim Speed

Author:Karl Popper