Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.
Evolution is never gentle.
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously.
Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park
Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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.
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As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.
John Coffey in The Green Mile
14The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
"Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."
Every person is a special thought of God, not only humanity as a whole.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
Everything in nature called destruction must be creation - a change from beauty to beauty.
John Muir - 1869
1Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!
Flik in A Bug's Life
1Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
There are no strange creatures, only blinkered people.
Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts - 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald
3If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.
Humanity is the architect of its own extinction.
We're racing toward the extinction of our species. We not only lack dominion over nature, we're subordinate to it.
Jurassic Park - Jurassic World 3: Dominion
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Natural selection is anything but random.
In a world without love, death means nothing.
Long before blades and sorcery are needed, words... can save a soul.
Rhaast: "A craftsman never blames his tools."
Kayn: "I will make an exception in this case."
Kayn: "I will make an exception in this case."