“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.” IfsHumansLittlesSoulEndsMightCareGrowsResultsConsciousnessProgressRevolutionMessagesRegardPropertyFollowingSeedsTinyStatementsCosmicPredictableKrishnaMantrasPedestalEnd ResultsHaresSmashingTwigsPenetrationAfterthoughtFortuitousHare Krishna Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.” HumansForceSocialResultsNumbersReadyRevolutionEvolutionDegreesCapacityFollowingFollowersInnatePioneersClique Author:Piet Mondrian
“Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.” TwoStatesWaterRevolutionStressTransformationWorkersRateFollowingHeatLeapTransitionSteadyStableRapidsAccumulationPoint BreakSlow And Steady Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.” FirstsPresidentRevolutionFollowingPeacefulCiviliansEgyptianPeaceful Revolution Author:Mohammed Morsi
“Following bio-medical treatment - which is basically changing the diet, giving vitamins and supplements and detoxing the body from metals or candida - and he recovered. And the reason the medical community has such a hard time with this is because we are treating and healing a vaccine injury ... this is truly a revolution.” GivingHardReasonBodyCommunityHealingRevolutionFollowingMedicalDietsHard TimesInjuryTreatmentMetalsAutismVaccinesVitaminsSupplementsMedical TreatmentBios Author:Jenny McCarthy
“A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.” SelfDesirePassionMovementRevolutionMassFollowingRebellionAdvancementRenunciation Book:The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements