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Evolution |
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| "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor
the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to
change." |
| -- Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-82), British naturalist |
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| "Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably
arboreal in its habits." |
| -- Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-82), British naturalist |
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| "I have called this principle, by which each slight
variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural
Selection." |
| -- Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-82), British naturalist |
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| "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we
should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no
good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." |
| -- Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-82), British naturalist |
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| "The assumed instinctive belief in God has been
used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash
argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of
cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the
belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety." |
| -- Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-82), British naturalist |
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| "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of
nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." |
| -- Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-82), British naturalist |
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| "Evolution is the process by which life
changes itself to transition from the present to the future. Only
the extinct do not evolve. They are eternally frozen in time and
space." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis
and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing
if he still believes in evolution." |
| -- Dean Koontz, American author |
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| "If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be
able to operate a can opener by now." |
| -- Larry Wright |
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| "The evolution of consciousness culminates in an
all-inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite
and the eternal." |
| -- Phiroz Mehta |
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| "Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love
and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not
make evolutionary sense." |
| -- Richard Dawkins (b. 1941),
Kenyan writer, author |
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| "Civilization is a progress from an
indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent
heterogeneity." |
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--
Herbert Spencer |
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| "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember
that virtue is not hereditary." |
| -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809),
British-born American writer, Revolutionary leader |
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| "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." |
| -- Richard Bach, American writer |
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"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances,
the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does
not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith,
but through striving after rational knowledge."
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-- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "To suppose that the eye with all its
inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different
distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the
correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been
formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest
degree." |
| -- Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-82), British naturalist |
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