#volution

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop. ↗

— David Eagleman

#evolution #science #intelligence

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#intelligence #intelligence

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise. ↗

— Idries Shah

#donkeys #ego #evolution #intelligence #poses

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. ↗

— John M. Smith

#evolution #evolutionary #hardest #problem #sex

92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#death

The backseat produced the sexual revolution. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#produced #revolution #sexual #sexual revolution

The French revolution taught us the rights of man. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#french revolution #man #revolution #rights #taught

Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution - because a good understanding of our universal roots and of our place in the cosmic scheme of things will help us create a feasible future course; the second - energy - because our fate will bear strongly on the ways that humankind learns to use energy efficiently and safely; and the third - ethics - because global citizenship and a planetary society are crucial factors in the survival of our species. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#ethics #evolution #life #survival #age

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ideology #people #political-revolutionary #revolution #revolutionary-movement