#evolution

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #education

Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaiming our bodies and changing the world. ↗

— Eli Clare

#revolution #storytelling #change

It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#evolutionary-psychology #mindset #science #change

It will be like that until someone decides to change it. All of it. But how did you change an entire culture? Revolutions were about politics, not perceptions, weren't they? ↗

— Kameron Hurley

#change

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36) ↗

— Jon Stewart

#humor #italian #jon-stewart #language #communication

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#independence #independent-thought #inspirational #liberty #revolution

Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#natural-selection #change

If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years. ↗

— Michael J. McGuire

#drinking-water #michael-j-mcguire #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution #water

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #noremorse #page #dating

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ↗

— Patrick Henry

#liberty #revolution #slavery #death