Quotes about Evolution

From natural selection's point of view, status assistance is the main purpose of friendship.

It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.

Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.

from natural selection's point of view, feelings would make great labels for thoughts, labels that say things like "high priority," "medium priority," "low priority.

He knew that an existing structure had to be torn down or at least restructured before anything new and lasting could be built on the same foundation

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Christianity will not be content to be an evolution within the total category of human nature; an engagement such as that is too little to offer to a god. Neither does it even want to be the paradox for the believer, and then surreptitiously, little by little, provide him with understanding, because the martyrdom of faith (to crucify one's understanding) is not a martyrdom of the moment, but the martyrdom of continuance.

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The

Failure is success in progress

Success is not a destination, it's a journey.