Theodosius Dobzhansky Quotes

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.

What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when you learn something from other people, then you keep moving onward for yourself.

The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

The cost of independence has dropped.

My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.

If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.