Evolution Quotes - Page 38

• You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!

  Unknown

  Real, Flying, Next Steps

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• Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

  Werner Herzog

  Ocean, Men, Land

  Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, Slavoj Žižek (2016). “CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana”, p.128, Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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• Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

  Karl Pilkington

  Ladders, Giraffe, Carpentry

  "Xfm" Radio, June 11, 2005.

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• Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Spiritual, Views, Theory Of Evolution

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• Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Order, Balance

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.62, Random House

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• If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Order, Grace

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• What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

  Rick Santorum

  Teaching, Thinking, Views

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Mean, Perspective, Kind

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• Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions.

  Jerry Mander

  Political, Negative, Something New

  "Technology: Can We Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?" by Jim Selman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2013.

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• I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Theory Of Evolution, Accepting

  "Ron Paul: I don't accept the theory of evolution", www.cbsnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Matter, Argument

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.246, Crown Forum

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• Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting challenge to a belief in God. If you want something that complicates a belief in God, try coming to terms with Michael Moore being one of God's special creatures.

  Ann Coulter

  Want Something, Challenges, Special

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.199, Crown Forum

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• I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions...

  Ann Coulter

  Rosters

  "Exclusive Interview: Coulter Says Book Examines ‘Mental Disorder’ of Liberalism". Interview with Lisa De Pasquale, humanevents.com. June 6, 2006.

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• Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush. If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Party, Years

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• In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.

  Michael Denton

  Class, Would Be, Finals

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• The car is undoubtedly quicker and more balanced. The traction and braking can still be improved a bit but there's been a good evolution already from three weeks ago.

  Rubens Barrichello

  Car, Three, Week

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• This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Natural, Divine

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• One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Night, Humanity, Age

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Teaching

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• The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Innovation, Important, Sound

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• I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

  Aldo Leopold

  Thinking, Land, Community

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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• Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

  Tom DeLay

  Inspiring, Mother, Teaching

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• The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

  Betty Friedan

  Feminist, Revolution, States

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Helping, Giraffe

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

  Laura Marling

  Character, Unique, Technology

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