G. Ledyard Stebbins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  • Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

  • In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

  • Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

  • Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

  • The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

  • Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

  • all the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution ...

  • Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

  • Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.