Evolution Quotes

• Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Connect

• You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

  

  Karel Appel
  • Children
  • Forget
  • Evolution

• Wherever people are in their evolution, they start to come into that hope and feeling like they are okay, that they're going to be okay.

  

  Christine McCormick Day
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Okay

• Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

  

  Eugenie Scott
  • Fields
  • Controversial
  • Spheres

• The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Father

• I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Realizing
  • Consciousness
  • Disaster

• But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species by working a forty-hour week, nor achieved any significant accomplishment by taking refuge in cynicism.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Cynicism

• As I said before, evolution doesn’t bother me. If you tell me that God created the earth “by hand” in six days some thousands of years ago, I am impressed. If you tell me instead that God set a whole cosmos in motion some billions of years ago, a cosmos perfectly calibrated within the narrowest of margins to produce at least one planet where life would be developed through cause-effect chains that were designed into it by a purposeful Designer… I am no less impressed; in fact, I may be even more impressed. The “how” and “when” of it all seem almost inconsequential to me compared to the “what” and “why” which lie beyond cause and effect.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Earth
  • Evolution

• Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.

  

  William Herbert Hobbs
  • Science
  • Common
  • Framework

• Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Energy
  • Firsts
  • Manifestation

• My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Opportunity
  • Humanity
  • Birth

• In sum, the processes of evolution create initially comparatively simple dynamical systems on particular levels of organisation. The processes then lead to the progressive complexification of the existing systems and, ultimately, to the creation of simpler systems on the next higher organisational level, where complexification begins anew. Thus evolution moves from the simpler to the more complex, and from the lower to the higher level of organisation.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Creation
  • Processes
  • Organisation

• I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Women
  • Humanity
  • Daylight

• I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Scientist
  • Climate
  • Questioning

• Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

  

  George Will
  • Remember
  • President
  • Evolution

• There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.

  

  Eugenie Scott
  • Critics
  • Atheism
  • Scientist

• I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Change
  • Nothing
  • Against

• Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Evolution

• The natural philosophy of the new developments in the sciences is a systems philosophy. When properly articulated, it can give us both factual and normative knowledge. Exploring such knowledge and applying it in determining our future is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. For if we do not, another chapter of terrestrial evolution will come to an end, and its unique experiment with rational consciousness will be written off as a failure.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy

• 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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Imagination
  • Consciousness

• Having freed ourselves from the constraints of evolution, humans nevertheless remain dependent on the earth’s biological and geochemical systems. By disrupting these systems—cutting down tropical rainforests, altering the composition of the atmosphere, acidifying the oceans—we’re putting our own survival in danger.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Danger
  • Evolution
  • Atmosphere

• I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

  

  Errol White
  • Law
  • Prove
  • Evolution

• If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Science
  • Understanding

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

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • Evolution

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