The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
“It is probable that the future will be more limited by the slow evolution of the human animal and the corresponding human laws, social institutions, and organizations than it will be by the rapid evolution of technology.”
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
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Article in Nature, 1931, vol 128, page 704

“Human evolution should be humane evolution.”
From Humane Evolution http://www.quartetbooks.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/the-love-bird-from-the-mountains-of-lebanon/, a speech delivered at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, March 13, 2015
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 224

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 172

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Context: Technology isn’t really effective, it doesn’t really expose its true meaning, I feel, until it has been incorporated into the human body. And most of it does, in some way or another. Electronics. People wear glasses. They wear hearing aids that are really little computers. They wear pacemakers. They have their intestines modified. It’s really quite incredible what we’ve been able to do to the human body and really take it some place that evolution on its own could not take it. Technology has really taken over evolution. We’ve seized control of evolution ourselves without really quite being conscious of it. It’s no longer the environment that affects change in the human body, it’s our minds, it’s our concepts, our technology that are doing that.

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As I Please (1943–1947)
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The Panda's Thumb (1980)

“The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.