#evolution

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. ↗

— James Tobin

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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians. ↗

— Robert Trout

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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#competition #deadly #evolutionary #humans #light

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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