George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Evolution
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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All progress means war with society.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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