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Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most ce...

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Grant MorrisonSupergods: What Masked Vigilantes

It may sound peculiar coming from an old punk rocker, but I strongly believe that governmental polic...

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Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties o...

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Greg GraffinAnarchy Evolution: Faith

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or late...

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H. G. WellsThe Island of Dr. Moreau

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

In the superman Nietzsche gave the world a conceivable and possible goal for all human effort. But t...

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H. L. MenckenThe Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy ev...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's hap...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Long before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on liken...

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset D...

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The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jenn...

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I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other s...

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Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the ...

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No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man...

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Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestr...

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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will...

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Henry RollinsThe Portable Henry Rollins

Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter ...

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If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can...

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There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, an...

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Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism ...

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It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply lik...

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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no v...

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Isaac NewtonThe Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

I've been in love for five hundred million years…

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time yo...

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The home world exercises its siren call over us all. No matter how far we wander, or how long we are...

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Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress ...

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A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individu...

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...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fund...

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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvary...

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When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a s...

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A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

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Jacques MonodSelected Papers in Molecular Biology

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose...

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...if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and...

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A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropol...

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I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet att...

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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate herita...

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I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural ...

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Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

But the largest number of primate species--thirty-four--have a promiscuous system in which females r...

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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in...

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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...

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Jared DiamondWhy Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

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I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why ...

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[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but...

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If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organ...

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The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an inc...

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John BurroughsThe Light of Day (Volume 11); Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View

There will come a time,' I said, 'when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when th...

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There is no theoretical reason to expect evolutionary lineages to increase in complexity with time, ...

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I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that ...

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Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressiv...

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When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason t...

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Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind ...

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The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction an...

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When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are als...

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The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individual...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intel...

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Julian BarnesNothing to Be Frightened Of

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species w...

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I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only ...

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Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

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An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescui...

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What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that afte...

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It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the bes...

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The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity.

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Kent HovindThe Dangers Of Evolution [Dvd 2005]

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common hi...

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Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been sel...

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Третье великое препятствие человеческого самопознания — по крайней мере в нашей западной культуре — ...

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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in...

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Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide...

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Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution o...

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Leszek KołakowskiReligion: If There is No God...on God

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch brea...

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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...

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Lewis ThomasLate Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ...

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Lewis ThomasThe Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboratio...

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Lewis ThomasThe Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that n...

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I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been ap...

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Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attrac...

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Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

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Mark KurlanskyCod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstance...

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) ...

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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to las...

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...

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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on ...

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At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no othe...

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Matt RidleyThe Rational Optimist

There is a neat economic explanation for the sexual division of labour in hunter-gatherers. In terms...

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Matt RidleyThe Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

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Matt RidleyThe Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature