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Evolution Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “A woman simply is, but a man must become.”

Camille Paglia

2. “Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.”

Camille Paglia

3. “A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men.”

Camille Paglia

4. “Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.”

Camille Paglia

5. “The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”

John D. Rockefeller

6. “Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.”

Guy Kawasaki

7. “It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?”

Mitch Hedberg

8. “If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?”

Steven Wright

9. “My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.”

Steven Wright

10. “Do not remain married to a version of you that doesn't exist anymore.”

Ankur Warikoo

11. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Alvin Toffler

12. “Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.”

Alvin Toffler

13. “You cannot get a new economy without a new society.”

Alvin Toffler

14. “Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.”

V.S. Naipaul

15. “Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.”

Jack Ma

16. “Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.”

Plutarch

17. “The grand illusion of life is that our minds have the capacity to understand reality. But human minds didn’t evolve to understand reality. We didn’t need that capability. A clear view of reality wasn’t necessary for our survival. Evolution cares only that you survive long enough to procreate. And that’s a low bar. The result is that each of us is, in effect, living in our own little movie that our brain has cooked up for us to explain our experiences.”

Scott Adams

18. “I Have No Reason To Believe Humans Evolved With The Capability To Understand Their Reality. That Capability Was Not Important To Survival. When It Comes To Evolution, Any Illusion That Keeps Us Alive Long Enough To Procreate Is Good Enough.”

Scott Adams

19. “Confirmation Bias Isn’t An Occasional Bug In Our Human Operating System. It Is The Operating System. We Are Designed By Evolution To See New Information As Supporting Our Existing Opinions, So Long As It Doesn’t Stop Us From Procreating. Evolution Doesn’t Care If You Understand Your Reality. It Only Cares That You Reproduce.”

Scott Adams

20. “Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That’s not a natural advantage. You’d better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs.”

Scott Adams

21. “The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”

Herbert Spencer

22. “If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.”

Herbert Spencer

23. “Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.”

Herbert Spencer

24. “This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called “natural selection”, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.”

Herbert Spencer

25. “During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.”

Herbert Spencer

26. “We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.”

Herbert Spencer

27. “This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.”

Herbert Spencer

28. “With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.”

Herbert Spencer

29. “The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.”

Herbert Spencer

30. “Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.”

Herbert Spencer

31. “Meditation is evolution’s strategy to bring out our full potential.”

Tara Brach

32. “Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.”

Amit Ray

33. “Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.”

Amit Ray

34. “As the scope of AI expands, it is evolving beyond general intelligence into the realms of emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, political intelligence, bodily intelligence, ecological intelligence, and ethical intelligence.”

Amit Ray

35. “In AI 5.0, the interaction between human and machine will be like evolutionary interactions between flowering plants and bees.”

Amit Ray

36. “Artificial Intelligence is not just learning patterns from data, but understanding human emotions and its evolution from its depth and not just fulfilling the surface level human requirements, but sensitivity towards human pain, happiness, mistakes, sufferings and well-being of the society are the parts of the evolving new AI systems.”

Amit Ray

37. “We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks.”

Amit Ray

38. “Why don’t we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?”

Chogyam Trungpa

39. “America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.”

Alice Walker

40. “I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.”

Naval Ravikant

41. “Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”

Charlie Chaplin

42. “The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”

Henry Ward Beecher

43. “The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.”

Henry Ward Beecher

44. “In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.”

Henry Ward Beecher

45. “The whole world itself is going through a unique kind of neurosis, which was not there in the past. This is simply because modern man has stopped using his body to a large extent.”

Sadhguru

46. “When you were just born, it did not take immediate effect. It was waiting. As the process of growth happens, it looks for the right kind of situation and takes effect.”

Sadhguru

47. “Through millions of years of evolution, nature has caged you within certain boundaries – this is the human predicament. But this imprisonment is only on the level of biology. On the level of human consciousness, you are like a bird in a cage without a door. What a tragic irony! It is only out of long aeons of habit that you are refusing to fly free.”

Sadhguru

48. “The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.”

Thomas Carlyle

49. “Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.”

Thomas Carlyle