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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. - J

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. – John Morley

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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. – John Morley

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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John Morley

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. – H. L. Mencken

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We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act. – W. Winwood Reade

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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Evolution

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. – Bertrand Russell

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A professor is someone who talks in someone elses sleep. – W. H. Auden

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observers own weaknesses reflected back from others. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. – Sun Tzu

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder

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