Quotes About Evolution

Spiritual Awakening: The Process A slow change in the way we think, feel, and behave that is done to us, not by us.

Definitions Spiritual Awakening: The Process A slow change in the way we think, feel, and behave that is done to us, not by us.

kneeling, swaying, or sitting in a cross-legged position are believed to have evolved to prevent falling asleep. You should be comfortable and relaxed.

History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

Trade as well as war has changed aspect—both are now fought at long range.

Once teachers can forget how a class should be they can discover each year what it must be like with that specific class at that particular moment in their lives.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

If it's good, they'll stop making it.

Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.

Evolution is a great word but it turns its back on difficulties and sums up a rich and complicated reality under a vague formula.

When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it later on produces out of itself.

The notion that all peoples are on the road to progress is as incorrect as that they are continuously declining and degenerating.