Top 1200 Human Evolution Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. I'm also from the area that is considered to be the cradle of mankind.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.

I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

Things do look pretty grim, but I think there are more laughs in Hellboy in Hell than there are in B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth. I think Hell is getting nicer and Earth is getting worse. Once we figured out what we were doing, the whole point of the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. stuff has always been evolution. The kind of evolution we're seeing on Earth is nasty evolution - part of this kind of evolution is that you have to wipe out what was there before you can replace it.

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years of evolution - what we do.

If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.

I'm a 'specist.' I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior-like the deepest capacities for emotional respone which drive and guide it-is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact.

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could change our behavior really quickly instead of over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then comes moral evolution, which means we're not frightfully far along with people. And maybe we end up with a spiritual evolution, which is this connectedness with the rest of the life forms on the planet.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

Evolution occurs in the world of time and space and form, whereas Spirit's primordial nature is finally timeless and Formless, prior to the of evolution but not other to it. We do not find Spirit or Emptiness by reaching some evolutionary Omega point in time, but rather by stepping off the cycle of time and evolution altogether (or ceasing to contract into it).

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness

I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

Personal evolution has nothing to do with art, it's never. Art is a sine curve: dark and light change permanently, in cumulative radicalism. Art decides what to do. The choice of colors is made by the colors themselves. The evolution of art is the evolution of the future itself.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.