Best humans & evolution Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.”

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Author:Leon Krier

“If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you 'Pro' many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

“Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.”

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Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.”

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Book:The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2

Source: The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2

“Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.”

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Book:Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

“A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.”

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Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.”

Humans Earth Law Evolution Species Environmental Abnormal Dice Human Species Abnormality

Author:E. O. Wilson

“To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.”

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Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.”

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Author:Howard Hughes

“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.”

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Author:Alan I. Leshner

“Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.”

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Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.”

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Author:Peace Pilgrim

“We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step.”

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Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.”

Humans Games Evolution Murder Competition Killing Intense Beneficial Human Evolution

Author:David Buss

“Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.”

Humans Mistake Planets Evolution Destroyed Our Planet

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.”

“It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation”

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Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.”

Ifs World Humans Has Beens Different Views Progress Evolution Judgment Point Of View Oneness Our Time Internals Mastery Distinguished Forgetfulness Human Evolution

Author:R. D. Laing

“In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance.”

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Author:Edwin Land

“The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth.”

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Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

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