529 quotes found
“What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?”
“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form perhaps a self-replicating molecule that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off...”
“In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a waste. Trees are extravagant. Tree trunks are standing monuments to futile competi...”
“evolution is not progress, that there is no goal or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution succeeds if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions ...”
“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first placea case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.”
“The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not Gods Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness. This chaotic structure belongs to the evolution! Evolution is primitive and ...”
“My body lies within the strings and myths of reality with a purpose of evolution and adapted by gravity but for my conscious's matrix is without any doubt has adapted to other's consciousness and t...”
“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”
“One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.”
“Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the...”
“The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sens...”
“If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have to accept the incredible wisdom of the Creator in the creation of the...”
“As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.”
“Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts.”
“We are; therefore, we evolve.”
“Given enough time, even evolution evolves.”
“Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.”
“Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since”
“So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not yet fully assured of our place in the world and our hold on its swarming phenomena; so long as t...”
“In the superman Nietzsche gave the world a conceivable and possible goal for all human effort. But there still remained a problem and it was this: When the superman at last appears on earth, what t...”
