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"The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed."
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"The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind."
"If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God."
"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."
"As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus."
"I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby."
"Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely."
"It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever."
"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."
"We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion."
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"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."
"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man."
"He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material."
"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned."
"Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular."
"Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself."
"Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences."
"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
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