#evolution

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#determined #did #evolution #face #fact

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game. ↗

— Courtney Love

#believe #cash #fun #game #get

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. ↗

— James Lovelock

#aspirations #caps #china #emit #gases

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. ↗

— James Lovelock

#any #around #been #come #evolution

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#history #only #proletariat #revolution #school

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#marxism #must #new #revelations #revolutionary

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#amazing #change #i #industrial #industrial revolution

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#revolution #respect

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#brought #history #i #i think #important