Top 22 Human Evolution Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Human Evolution Quotes from famous people such as Alanis Morissette, Vaclav Smil, William Irwin Thompson, Marianne Williamson, Daniel H. Wilson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I’m here to support the human evolution.
Alanis Morissette
There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one of obligatory herbivores; our enzymes evolved to digest meat, whose consumption aided higher encephalization and better physical growth.
Vaclav Smil
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
The point of Jesus’ existence wasn’t to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
Marianne Williamson
You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that’s going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that’s happening now.
Daniel H. Wilson
One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?
Ken Ham
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
Jerry Saltz
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history – sparked by books on human evolution – then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.
Greg Graffin
In literature classes, you don’t learn about genes; in physics classes you don’t learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.
David Christian
I’ve always been fascinated with adrenaline; it’s saved my life more than once, and it’s caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.
Craig Venter
I surely don’t think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance – like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking – seems to have its uses.
Scott Spencer
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
Greg Gutfeld
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
William Irwin Thompson
Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
Patti Smith
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?
Steven Pinker
The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.
Sonali Bendre
Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that have made us human, with larger brains, smaller guts, bipedalism, and language.
Vaclav Smil
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I’ll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.
Donald Johanson
I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I… can just call them up instantly. And that’s great. But what’s happening right now is that we’re in a phase of human evolution where we’re merging with machines.
Franklin Foer
Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.
Harald zur Hausen
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka
It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.
Sun Yat-sen