Quotes About Evolution

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.

It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something—but he does not know where it leads him.

evolved. This evolution only means that the soul has adopted a more finished instrument in order to experience life more fully.

He who is of lower evolution cannot love a higher object. But a person of higher evolution can love the lower as well as the higher. He who once loves cannot hate. The one who hates is he who cannot appreciate.

Life is a continual series of experiences, one leading to the other, until the soul arrives at its destination.

The history of the church has reflected the evolution from premodernism to modernism in many ways. One clear example lies in the changing structure of worship services.

sometime around the turn of the seventeenth century there began what is often called the modern period, or modernity.[1] It lasted, roughly, until sometime in the late twentieth century.

as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,

repotting means accepting that the way is forward, not back. it means realizing that we won't again fit into our old shells. but that's not failure. that's living.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Most people, when their culture began to run wood through sawmills and build homes out of the dimensional lumber that results, would not have thought to ask what, in our human experience and capability, might be affected by this.

Mixing up your genotype with someone else's, possibly breaking up some bad genetic combinations that had been riding around in you, perhaps discovering new good combinations, and giving your offspring a chance at being a better fit in a landscape that has not yet occurred—these are the benefits of sexual reproduction.

Humans no longer eat merely to satisfy energetic requirements, any more than we have sex just to make babies.

Asking if a particular trait is due to nature or nurture implies a false dichotomy between nature, genes, and evolution on the one side and between nurture and environment on the other. In fact, all of it is evolutionary.

Does your pet love you? Of course your pet loves you. (Qualifier: your pet can love you if it's a mammal or one of a few clades of birds, like a parrot. If your pet is a gecko or a python or a goldfish, your pet is probably incapable of love.) Love develops for every evolutionary pairing that requires devotion. We love our pets, and our pets love us. Dogs, in particular, are love generators who hang out with you and help you know that you're not alone. Dog is love, unmoored.

What, then, might deodorants and perfumes have done to our ability to smell the signals emitted by our bodies? What might lives filled with clocks have done to our sense of time? What have airplanes done to our sense of space, or the internet to our sense of competence? What have maps done to our sense of direction, or schools to our sense of family? You get the point.

Group membership never disappears, but an organism will try to pass as something it's not, if enough of its traits transform. We are nucleate, heterotrophic, vertebral, brainy, bony fish. We are fish.

we are all distinct—what will work for one person may not work for another; this variation between individuals is perhaps the most fundamental of evolutionary observations.

the human niche is niche switching. More specifically, we argue that the human niche is to move between the paired, inverse modes of culture and consciousness.

novel levels of novelty, such as we are experiencing now, are a special danger. This means that what's needed today—and urgently—is a call to consciousness on a scale that we have not seen before.

Love develops for every evolutionary pairing that requires devotion.