Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution."
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Evolution
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Julio Cortazar
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons."
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components."
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Author
"We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice."
Andrei Tarkovsky
Film Director, Screenwriter
"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."
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"All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct."
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"Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder."
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"The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,."
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"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."
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"An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth."
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"Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes."
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"Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon."
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"Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve."
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"Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence."
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"Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair."
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"Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution."
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"Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?"
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"Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency."
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"God's first creature, which was light."
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"There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond."
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"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution."
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"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
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"A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest."
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"Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species."
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"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy."
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