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Evolution Quotes
"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."
"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
"It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever."
"In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments."
"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"
"Life itself demands change from every dweller of planet earth."
"Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show."
"Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular."
"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles."
"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."
"When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form - or a species - will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap."
"Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely."
"Pivotal changes occur with every period of time."
"The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed."
"That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff."
"My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted."
"As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus."
"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."
"The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort."
"We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution."
"If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly."
"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
"Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case."
"If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour."
"Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection."
"In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution."
"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
"All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite."
"In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains."
"The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest."
"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."
"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."
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