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  • A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits. More
  • A jellyfish and a saurian,
    And caves where the cave men dwell;
    Then a sense of law and... More
  • A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer,... More
  • A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state... More
  • An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and... More
  • And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman... More
  • As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a... More
  • Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,—the Better, the Best.... More
  • Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals... More
  • By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way... More
  • Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
    He sits on the ancestral tree
    From which we sprang in... More
  • Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and... More
  • Evolution was all over my chldhood, walks abroad with an evolutionist and the world was full of... More
  • Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where... More
  • For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes... More
  • From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of... More
  • God ... created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed—that is the... More
  • He sowed our spawn in the world’s dim dawn,
    And I know that it shall not die; More
  • Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures... More
  • I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something... More
  • I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the... More
  • I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and... More
  • If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man... More
  • In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great... More
  • It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and... More
  • It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the... More
  • It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. More
  • It seems to me that we do not know nearly enough about ourselves; that we do not often enough... More
  • Let us drink anew to the time when you
    Were a tadpole and I was a fish. More
  • Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it... More
  • Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the... More
  • Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which... More
  • Nearly a million species of animals are already known. Of these, only a few thousand are endowed... More
  • Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. More
  • Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants... More
  • Old men ought to be explorers
    Here and there does not matter
    We must be still and still... More
  • Once having marched
    Over the margins of animal necessity,
    Over the grim line of sheer... More
  • Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and... More
  • Said an ape as he swung by his tail
    To his offspring both female and male,
    “From your... More
  • The age of the world is great enough for our imaginations, even according to the Mosaic account,... More
  • The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself... More
  • The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some... More
  • The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages,—leaf after leaf,—never... More
  • The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual... More
  • The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars, it is also defined... More
  • The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old... More
  • The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories... More
  • The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man’s... More
  • The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent... More
  • The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the... More
  • The periods of Hindoo and Chinese history, though they reach back to the time when the race of... More
  • The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best... More
  • The prehuman creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious... More
  • The question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I... More
  • The seashore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate... More
  • The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. More
  • The success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the... More
  • The years-heired feature that can
    In curve and voice and eye
    Despise the human... More
  • There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily... More
  • There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in... More
  • There was ... a large, shaggy dog, whose nose, report said, was full of porcupine quills. I can... More
  • Until they saw, over the mists
    of Venus, two fish creatures stop
    on spangled legs and... More
  • Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some... More
  • We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. More
  • We have no thoughts of our own: they are transmitted to us, trained into us. All that is original... More
  • We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the... More
  • What he loved so much in the plant morphological structure of the tree was that given a fixed... More
  • While Darwinian Man, though well-behaved,
    At best is only a monkey shaved! More
  • Why do precisely these objects which we behold make a world? Why has man just these species of... More
  • You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the... More

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