Quotes About Evolution

Jesus chose the disciples for what they would become, not for what they were at the time of their call.

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.

The pioneering anthropologist Louis Leakey once stated, "Without an understanding of who we are, we cannot truly advance.

the activities of every day can't be separate from our spiritual evolution—they are our spiritual evolution!

a professional project, relationship, or school assignment doesn't turn out the way that was expected, we can always learn from our experiences and do things differently the next time around.

We're "part of a universe that is a work in progress." In this unfinished creation, "we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change. The Sunborn

Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans?

The argument is instead that it rewarded with economic and hence reproductive success a certain repertoire of skills and dispositions that were very different from those of the pre-agrarian world, such as the ability to perform simple repetitive tasks hour after hour, day after day. There is nothing natural or harmonic, for example, in having a disposition to work even when all the basic needs of survival have been achieved.

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

Not all engagement with our past is characterized by crisis.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; today's image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures on the cover of a bestselling magazine, whereas the older image was of an Indian man with long beard sitting in a cave wearing a loin cloth.

The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed.

O mouths humanity seeks a new language Beyond the reach of grammarians.

Jedino što je izvesno: iz jednog ovakvog putovanja ne izlazi se netaknut. Ne izlazi se bolji. Ne izlazi se ja?i.