Evolutionarily Speaking Quotes

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

Abhijit Naskar

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

Albert Einstein

#5. Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Howard Gardner

#6. Cry for the soul that will not face the body as an equal place.

Dory Previn

#7. Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

Lizz Winstead

#8. While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.

Clarence Thomas

#9. His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes.

Wallace Stegner

#10. [Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.

Ernest Becker

#11. Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

Adam Hasner

#13. There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

Bill Viola

#14. If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?

Darren Hayes

#15. Human beings are the best hope in the world of other human beings to survive.

Gavriel Savit

#16. Apparently my subconscious freaked out when I saw blood on the vet's coat and then I abruptly passed out right on my cat. (That's not a euphemism.)

Jenny Lawson