Quotes About Evolution

Behavior develops 'in a spiral'...Every motor theme of embryonic life can be considered as a theme that will be elaborated at a higher level in postnatal life.

What we call disorder and ruin, others who are younger live as the natural order of things.

Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to 'consciousness' of human knowledge.

All writers who are unprejudiced and open to the future know what they do not want better than what they do want.

True development, true maturation, consists in a double phenomenon of both surpassing and maintaining the past. To truly surpass the past is also to conserve it; in becoming something more, one must not refuse to affirm what one has been.

The life of thought transforms its own notions. Would not a thought in equilibrium actually be an absence of thought? Thought should be known in states of equilibrium, but in relative and nonfinal states of equilibrium. We know that our most profound convictions will be completed and modified by our future experiences. All equilibrium of thought contains in itself an evolutionary seef.

We see reappearing in the revolution the very struggles it was meant to move beyond.

Evolution, embryogenesis: The body - object is only a trace--Trace in the mechanical sense: present substitute of a past that no longer is--the trace for us is more than the present effect of the past. It is a survival of the past, an enjambment. The trace and the fossil: ammonite. The living thing is no longer there but it is almost there; we have the negative of it.

Man is an historical idea, not a natural species.

Man must realize his mechanicalness before he can change... Work is a question of increasing one's consciousness, not imitating virtues like monkeys.

And yet we are given a chance as the Side-Octave shews.

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The average lifetime of a company on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has declined from sixty years to a mere ten years

The here and now is shaped by the back then..

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution. —George Wald, Chemist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

History is not an escalator.

We wanted a labor force, but humans came.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Never take long-range plans seriously. Use them for general guidance as long as they seem to be taking you where you want to go, but whatever you do, don't get stuck with them. Throw them in the trash heap as soon as something better comes along.

We have been speaking of ether as an avenue of forces , a word which conveys no meaning to the average mind, because force is invisible. But to an occult investigator the forces are not merely names such as steam, electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent beings of varying grades, both sub and superhuman. What we call "laws of nature," are great intelligences which guide more elemental beings in accordance with certain rules designed to further their evolution.