evolution quotes

• It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. (Havelock Ellis) [relations/evolution]
• What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary. (Frantz Fanon) [society/society/evolution/civilization & progress]
• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [civilization & progress/civilization & progress/evolution]
• The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [language/evolution/culture/mankind]
• All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. (Charles Sanders Peirce) [evolution]
• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. (Mario Puzo) [think/evolution/death/wish]
• Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution. (Mark Twain) [evolution/right/time/paper]
• We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. (Ted Danson) [forget/evolution/point/evolution]
• “I think that's what makes life interesting-the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.” (Alexis Bledel) [think/life/evolution]
• Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action. (Patrick Warburton) [character/evolution]

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