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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison

Goal, Living, Until

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
Lewis Black

Voting, Gone, Lifetime

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Design, Simple, Down

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Steven Wright

Theory, Adopted, Darwin

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer

Human, Sense, Step

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
Richard Dawkins

Today, Doubt, Sun

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
Richard Dawkins

Feeling, Personal, Atheism

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Spiritual, Energy

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle

Two, Mothers, Hands

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard Dawkins

Natural, Existence, Theory

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
Bill Hicks

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

Human, Brain, Poor

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard Dawkins

Science, Doubt, Open

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
Stephen Hawking

Easy, Point, Three

Evolution never looks to the future.
Richard Dawkins

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. Wilson

God, Important, Made

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. Wilson

Religious, Dogma, Tend

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
E. O. Wilson

Learning, Year, Known

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
Thomas Huxley

History, Fashion, Young

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

Mind, Human, Between

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
E. O. Wilson

Real, May, Small

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
John Polkinghorne

Life, Here, Whole

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz Kafka

Spiritual, Evil, Nothing

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.
Emeril Lagasse

Cool, Real, Made

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge, Real, Victory

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Here, Process

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
Edwin Louis Cole

While, Believing, Christ

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

Human, Sense, Whole

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.
Alanis Morissette

Human, Here, Support

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Edward Bach

Life, Best, Moment

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