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Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant. -- Paul Berg
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. -- Franz Kafka
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. -- William Irwin Thompson
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution. -- Donald Johanson
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. -- William Irwin Thompson
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. -- Annie Besant
I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution. -- Alanis Morissette
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. -- Terence McKenna
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution. -- Arthur Keith
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution. -- African Spir
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution. -- Rudolf Steiner
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human. -- Jared Diamond
Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process. -- Harald zur Hausen
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one. -- Rudolf Steiner
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork. -- Greg Graffin
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. -- Albert Hofmann
In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education. -- David Christian
I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? -- Steven Pinker
The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that. -- William Gibson
Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us. -- Donald Johanson
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution. -- Marianne Williamson
The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself. -- Eckhart Tolle
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. -- Jerry Saltz
I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses. -- Craig Venter
By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution. -- Chin-Ning Chu
You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now. -- Daniel H. Wilson
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized. -- Jack Williamson
Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they can't kill. They've evolved in all these other ways, and they have these special abilities, but they can't kill. It's a very interesting concept. I really like it. I like the idea of it. -- Luke Mitchell
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy. -- David Pilbeam
What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening. -- Terence McKenna
The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. -- Howard Hughes
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. -- Arthur Koestler
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Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution -- Steven Pinker
E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness -- Bruce H. Lipton
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. -- Jean Berko Gleason
There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator-greed motivating evolution. -- Oliver Stone
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. -- Dan Simmons
To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution. -- E. O. Wilson
Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread. -- Damien Fahey
What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us. -- Peace Pilgrim
That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart. -- E. O. Wilson
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. -- David Koepp
Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. -- Richard Dawkins
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. -- Edmund Beecher Wilson
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. -- Robert E. Ornstein
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. -- Albert Schweitzer
A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. -- Paul Di Filippo
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. -- Paul Di Filippo
When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee. -- Jonathan Haidt
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. -- Walter Gilbert
The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity. -- John Fowles
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. -- Eknath Easwaran
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. -- Pope Pius X
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. -- Ray Kurzweil
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. -- Stella Gibbons
Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill. -- Herbie Hancock
A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution. -- T.F. Hodge
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. -- Betty Friedan
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -- Albert Einstein
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it. -- Tom Robbins
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them. -- Maria Montessori
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition, -- David Buss
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution. -- Robert Muller
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. -- Kurt Vonnegut
A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order. -- Conway Zirkle
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. -- Tom Robbins
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control. -- Theodore Kaczynski
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. -- E. O. Wilson
Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way. -- Steven Raichlen
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. -- Dennis Prager
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought. -- Stephen Jay Gould
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul -- Andrei Tarkovsky
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts. -- Edward Albee
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor. -- Bob Waterston
The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth. -- Benjamin Creme
Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us. -- Carl Sagan
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself. -- E. O. Wilson
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. -- Leon Krier
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out. -- William Irwin Thompson
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution. -- E. O. Wilson
I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it. -- Sherwood Washburn
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture. -- Peter Singer
There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed. -- Jonathan Haidt
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought. -- Eckhart Tolle
Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen. -- Peter Marshall

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