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  • Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins
  • 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.

    Men   Elephants   Atheism  
    Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”
  • It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.

    Lying   Men   Choices  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2000). “To Be Human”, p.6, Shambhala Publications
  • If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

    Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.213, Broadview Press
  • The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

    Men   Brain   Needs  
    "The Ghost in the Machine". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1967.
  • Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

    Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社
  • At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

    Men   Race   Savages  
    Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.218, Diversion Books
  • Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.

    Believe   Men   Long  
    Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.433, Broadview Press
  • The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1065, Wordsworth Editions
  • Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

    George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press
  • The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

    Nature   Taken   Men  
    Leon Trotsky (1980). “The History of the Russian Revolution”, Anchor Foundation
  • Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

    Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.216, Verso
  • Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

    Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

    "Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature". Book by Francis Crick, 1981.
  • The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.

  • What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

    "Of a Fire on the Moon". Life magazine, August 29, 1969.
  • Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

    Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.548, Penguin UK
  • It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.

    Ignorance   Science   Men  
    Ernst Haeckel (1883). “The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny”
  • The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

    Believe   Taken   Men  
    Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.8, Souvenir Press
  • A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future.

    Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.92, RSP
  • Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

    Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.578
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