Evolution Quotes - Page 22

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I'm selling evolution. You grow or you die.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.

Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.