Evolutionarily Quotes

#1. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid,

Satoshi Kanazawa

#2. Evolutionarily speaking, love is all about procreation.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable
and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

Daniel Quinn

#4. Because, we're evolutionarily programmed to over eat if possible.

Andrew Ferreira

#5. Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek - why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish.

Steven Pinker

#6. In a sentence: Nature beatified the neurotic. A tendency to make quick albeit mostly false associations was deemed more evolutionarily beneficial than more reliable but equally more time-consuming rational cynicism.

John Zande

#7. What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally, and spiritually One, and that if we seek peace and happiness, we must behave that way.

Martha Stout

#9. We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

Chris Adami

#10. Dying of grief is the ultimate sacrifice, but it is not evolutionarily feasible. If grief were that overwhelming, a species would simply be erased.

Jodi Picoult

#11. It is more than enough to be ethically and evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Agnes Smedley

#13. I don't want awesome powers. They come with awesome responsibilities, and those suck.

Tim Pratt

#14. Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Krister Stendahl

#15. The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#16. There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.

Wole Soyinka

#17. The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.

Nicole Krauss

#18. Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

Andre Breton

#19. There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

Sarah Silverman

#20. The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

Glenn Greenwald

#21. My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

Douglass North

#22. Life was good, one had only to live it.

Jorge Amado