"In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements."
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"In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity."
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"Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith."
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"Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?"
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"I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know."
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"Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself."
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"Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)"
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"Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures."
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"God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself."
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"[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it."
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"As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!"
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"Midway from Nothing to the Deity!"
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"I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic."
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"In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling."
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"...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution."
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"I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply."
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"All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution."
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"In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind."
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"I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it."
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"The law of evolution is that the strongest survives."
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