evolution quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Our evolution as a species has depended on the creation of a tremendous diversity of skills and ways of thinking. We thrive by the collective activity of people supplying their individual talents. Without such diversity, a culture dies."
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"Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive."
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats."
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"The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability."
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"The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change."
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"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded."
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"The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we feel toward pursuing it."
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"As artists and professionals it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. We overthrow the programming of advertising, movies, video games, magazines, TV, and MTV by which we have been hypnotized from the cradle."
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"The singularity is the ultimate black swan event - a technological revolution that will change the course of human history forever."
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"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
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"Depression is not real. Feeling depressed is real. So, you can feel depressed, but you feel depressed and that is a natural, biological, evolutionary trigger for you to change something in your life. That’s your own mind telling you ‘you’re unhappy about X’. If I went to jail today, I’d be depressed because I’m in jail. I haven’t caught depression, I don’t have a disease, I’m just upset with my situation."
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"Revolt is the right of the people."
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"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic."
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