91 Evolutionary Quotes for You to Enjoy

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. I. M. Pei

Architecture Evolutionary Part Revolutionary Modern Process Needed

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller

Mechanic Synthesis Evolutionary Objective Emerging Inventor Economist Artist Strategist Designer

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway. Louise L. Hay

Life Time Spiritual Space Will Lesson Our Evolutionary Point Advance Particular Come Learn Time And Space Pathway Decide Us Planet Incarnate Each Chosen Each One Here

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest. Will Self

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era. Michael Jordan

Believe Changes Evolutionary Era Greatness Process

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. E. O. Wilson

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be. Marc Jacobs

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. Stephen Jay Gould

Construction Drive Glorious Understanding Accidents Own Complexity Evolutionary Unpredictable Results Principles Yearn Mode Expected Process Capable Produce Creature Necessary

Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me. Tracy McMillan

Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race is transformed from something unimportant to the most important thing in the world. Yuval Noah Harari

World Important System Evolutionary Eye Something Ecological Most Fell Most Important Thing Blink Important Thing Human The Most Important Transformed Race Mankind Then Unimportant Human Race Thing Fundamentally

I have always thought that pandas, in evolutionary terms, are the most sophisticated animals in the world. They cannot look after themselves; they are useless at reproducing. But to compensate, they have managed to persuade the most advanced creatures on the planet - human beings - to care for their every need. Adam Curtis

World Care Thought Animals Every Evolutionary Advanced Sophisticated Look Most Terms Always Human Human Beings After Reproducing Cannot Themselves Planet Persuade Useless Beings Creatures Compensate Need

I'm an advocate of evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes. Alexander Lukashenko

Changes Evolutionary Advocate Revolutionary

I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct? Alexi Zentner

Myself Day History You Survival Science Fear Made Reading Our One Day Evolutionary Spiders Scared Something Thrillers Instinct Name Science Fiction Up Common Buried Being Fiction Grew Fantasy Asked Being Scared Reason Deep Why

One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays. Alison Gopnik

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years. Annalee Newitz

Witness Field Say Evidence Harvard Prominent Evolutionary Case Students He Most Faking Came Been Years Get Graduate Often Graduate Students Controversy Psychology Forward Whose Marc Professor

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent. Arthur Keith

Man Christianity Evolutionary Find Laws Shall Civilization Like Anti Conditions Effects Stages Ascent Which Against Works Earlier

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. Barbara Ehrenreich

Joy Collective Think Back Say Evolutionary Thousands Thousands Of Years Tend Generating Go Years Tragic Human Human Capacity Which Capacity Use Appears Techniques Hardwired Biologists

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. Bjarke Ingels

Life Architecture Space Believe Else Drawing Evolutionary Evolve Outer Outer Space Come Ideas Anything Crash Anything Else Board

In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you. Chris Adami

You Fight Animal World Decision Binary Example Long Recognition Evolutionary Evolve Would Kinds Animal World Environment For Example Know Also Knowing Because Opponent Same Behaviors Any Flee Your Mechanism

Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. Dana Goodyear

Funny Men Evolutionary Perceived Advantage Like Skilled Apparently

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools. Donald Johanson

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You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human. Donald Johanson

You Somewhere Evolutionary Some Human Just Flip Switch

I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is. Elise Andrew

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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. Ernst Mayr

Me Strictly Evolutionary Darwin Seems Rates Vertical Phenomenon

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