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
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
“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.
“What humans can't engineer, evolution can.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Source: Hyperion
Context: “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
“Empathy,” Aenea said softly.
“Homosexuality might be the most striking unresolved paradox of human evolution.”
Source: The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003), Homosexuality, p. 115
Dissertation for doctor of philosophy in christian education (May 25, 1991)
“Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 3 “Accumulating Small Change” (p. 50)
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Thirteen, The Whole- Earth Conspiracy
The Ageless Wisdom, An Introduction to Humanity's Spiritual Legacy (1996)
