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“The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.”

Universe Awareness Buddhism Evolution Method Structure Rate Determine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”

Way Want Doe Ideas Different Matter Progress Expression Evolution Method Following Theme

Author:Pablo Picasso

“We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'”

Knows Stills Matter Progress Evolution Claims Method Prophet Spite Biology Quarters Mechanic Jumping Up And Down Paleontology Over Confident

Author:Errol White

“Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist. Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe. Dogbert: Sounds cultish.”

“... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.”

Natural Revolution Evolution Intellectual Method

Author:Ameen Rihani

“Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.”

World Believe Stories Use Order Next I Believe Process Stage Information Evolution Creating Ultimate Method Patterns Our World Processing Epoch Information Processing

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have driven this evolution to a state of high refinement such that today's athletes have a very specialized approach to training at the elite levels.”

Years States Today Lasts Sports Levels Evolution Approach Training Method Competition Curiosity Athlete Driven Improvement Fifty Elites Inherent Conventional Refinement

Author:Steve House

“I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.”

Way Years Stills Science Process Nature Happened Events Creation Evolution Years Ago Method Billions Creationist Nothing Makes Sense

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods of the world's development from nothing; how the elements and heavenly bodies originated; in what method by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in Man attained self-consciousness.”

“The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.”

Firsts Science Steps Evolution Method Species First Steps Sheer Accumulation

Author:Richard Goldschmidt

“Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.”

Self Progress Sacrifice Evolution Survival Method Denial Savages Self Sacrifice Self-denial Mutilation

Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

“Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture history are interpretations based upon assumed culture process.”

World Facts Culture Process Evolution Method Interpretation Adaptation

Author:Jerry Sabloff

“It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic.”

Ifs Looks Sometimes Water Evolution Ocean Crosses Pressure Method Streams

Author:Peter van Inwagen

“Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.”

“Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”