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After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, Unpopular Essays
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
CHARLES DARWIN, The Origin of Species
- Some call it evolution,
- And others call it God.
WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH, Each In His Own Tongue
The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.
ISAAC ASIMOV, The Beginning and the End
I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.
JOHN MCCAIN, GOP primary debate, May 3, 2007
Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
TIMOTHY LEARY, Your Brain is God
Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.
DAN SIMMONS, The Rise of Endymion
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