#volution

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

#before #believed #bit #discovered #every

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#beings #believe #believes #biological #classification

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#destructive #established #free #great #habit

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous. ↗

— George Saunders

#birds #evolution #nature #beauty

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. ↗

— George Sand

#because #everybody #hand #himself #how

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#evolution #illogical #long #presumption #target

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#activities #begun #being #cannot #collective

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#classical #fusion #had #hold #jazz

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel. ↗

— Joel Silver

#cars #effects #evolution #feel #feeling

Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#categories #darwin #evidence #evolution #fact