#evolution

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#impossible #inevitable #make #peaceful #revolution

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. ↗

— Bela Kun

#council #dictatorship #established #firmly #governing

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#another #articulated #clearly #concept #condition

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #inspirational #life #nature #science

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

When I was very young the world was flat and colorless but as I grew older it acquired shape, first round, then a sphere and as I grow old it is infinite in all its dimensions and scope. ↗

— Sesame April

#evolution #life #world #age

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#evolution #inspirational #learning #life #motivational

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothing #creativity #designer #evolution #fashion

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#both #catholic #century #embraced #evangelical