529 quotes found
“Man is a glorious and unique species of animal. The species originated by evolution.... Future evolution could raise man to superb heights as yet hardly glimpsed, but it will not automatically do s...”
“If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sec...”
“I wanted to think of what could not be thought except in intersections; I wanted to satiate my fiendishness in a neutering gnosis. I wanted to see the first chimp paint its own likeness in a limbo ...”
“Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.”
“Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.”
“Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.”
“There is a neat economic explanation for the sexual division of labour in hunter-gatherers. In terms of nutrition, women generally collect dependable, staple carbohydrates whereas men fetch preciou...”
“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
“The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it.”
“But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.”
“Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.”
“When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.”
“Make mankind your dwelling place.”
“Humans are built to move. We evolved under conditions that required daily intense physical activity, and even among individuals with lower physical potential, that hard-earned genotype is still our...”
“From Lankaster to Lorenz, scientists have gotten it wrong. Parasites are complex, highly adapted creatures that are at the heart of the story of life. If there hadn't been such high walls dividing ...”
“What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.”
“It is high time that we grew up and left the Garden. We are indeed Edens children, yet it is time to place Genesis alongside the geocentric myth in the basket of stories that once, in a world of in...”
“Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution of life should be due to mere chance than that a particular order in a pack of cards should result...”
“Charles Darwin's only mistake was in not being a physicist, because the entire process of evolution started before our planet formed, with the event called the big bang, at this point our knowledge...”
“Dan Nilsson even remarks of compound eyes that It is only a small exaggeration to say that evolution seems to be fighting a desperate battle to improve a basically disastrous design.”
