#volution

Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#riot #life

Life is unlikely to end with humans, even if we burn in a nuclear holocaust. The relentless wheel of evolution will pick up from where we leave off and roll to it's predestined goal. If the human mind continues to evolve, enlarge, and expand, so that we are able to recognize our kinship with the creations around us, so that we are able to grasp our oneness with the cosmos, and so that we merge in yoga with the Divine, the long cosmic cycle will disclose its cryptic secret, and the long saga of billions of years of evolution will display its profound significance. ↗

— Roy J. Mathew

#evolution #yoga #life

Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose. The claim is that the new paradigm can actually influence — legitimately — our choice of basic values in the first place. Some Darwinians insist that such influence can never be legitimate. What they have in mind is the naturalistic fallacy, whose past violation has so tainted their line of work. But what we're doing here doesn't violate the naturalistic fallacy. Quite the opposite. By studying nature — by seeing the origins of the retributive impulse — we see how we have been conned into committing the naturalistic fallacy without knowing it; we discover that the aura of divine truth surrounding retribution is nothing more than a tool with which nature — natural selection — gets us to uncritically accept its "values." Once this revelation hits norm, we are less likely to obey this aura, and thus less likely to commit the fallacy. ↗

— Robert Wright

#evolution #morality #nature

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

#evolution #illogical #long #presumption #target

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#classroom #criticism #evolution #prohibiting #theory

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger

#frame #lives #memory #myth #our

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#already #century #experienced #i #known

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#came #connections #could #digital #film

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#revolutionary #rolled #sleeves #up #usually

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #destroy #dream #every #family