Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies of love. Then for the second times in history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
The stories of evolution have the power to unite all peoples
The emergence of organisms who are conscious of the direction of evolution is one of the most important steps in the evolution of life on any planet. Once organisms discover the direction of evolution, they can use it to guide their own evolution. If they know where evolution is going, they can work out what will produce success in the future, and use this to plan how they will evolve.
The problem of survival is not fundamentally technological. It is spiritual and moral. It is evolutionary.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Love and imagination are a human’s greatest competitive advantages.
The future belongs to those who have learned from the past.
Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies of love. Then for the second times in history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
There is no new without the old.
The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe.
The universe is not indifferent to our existence — it depends on it.
It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.
In an infinite universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinite number of stars on each side of it.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
We are the representatives of the cosmos: we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 14 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Science is the poetry of reality.
Evolution of form is very much a matter of teaching very old genes new tricks!
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.
Sex without death gets you single-celled algae and fungi; sex with a mortal soma gets you the rest of the eukaryotic creatures. Death is the price paid to have trees, and clams and birds and grasshoppers, and death is the price paid to have human consciousness, to be aware of all that shimmering awareness and all that love.
The cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest reason for scientific research.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
The Epic of Evolution is science translated into meaningful story.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Evolution is neither random nor predetermined, but rather an intelligent dance between organism and environment.
After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
Without a meaningful evolutionary worldview it’s impossible to understand yourself, your world, or what’s needed for humanity to survive and thrive in the coming decades.
There’s a force in the universe that underlies all of this beautiful chaos.
Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow.
The unity of life is no less remarkable than its diversity.
For our history to be a source of encouragement we have to know our history.
The earth is not the geometric center of the universe although it may be its spiritual center.
I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God’s, or Nature’s, method of Creation.
I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
The first way to think about the future is to know about the present.
Let the dataset change your mindset.
The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Today, only the very poorest people in the world would die in the way that the richest man of the 19th century died.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
When I look up at the night sky, and I know that yes we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up- many people feel small, cause they are small and the universe is big. But I feel big because my atoms came from those stars.
There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.
Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.
After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
It’s the people who are curious who change the world.
We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
Knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.
The most meaningful activity in which a human being can be engaged is one that is directly related to human evolution.
Whether he likes it or not, [man] is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people’s cosmic story.
I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life. And the name of that design is evolution.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Humanity is faced with a stark choice: evolve or die.
:The arc of the universe flows toward love.