“Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.”

Source: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

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“But the Schrödinger equation does not support this presumption. The state of superposition never collapses under Schrödinger evolution”

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“Communist ethics make it the highest duty to accept the necessity to act wickedly. This, he said, was the greatest sacrifice the revolution asked from us. The conviction of the true communist is that evil transforms itself into bliss through the dialectics of historical evolution.”

György Lukács (1885–1971) Marxist philosopher and literary critic

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