<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Evolution - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14366]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought,  A clear sonorous voice, inaudible  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14367]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought,  A clear sonorous voice, inaudible   To the vast multitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in the sluggish tide   We sprawled in the ooze and slime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14361]]></link><description><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark;  Out of the cloud a silence,   Then a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark;  Out of the cloud a silence,   Then a lark;    Out of the heart a rapture,     Then a pain;      Out of the dead, cold ashes,       Life again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"  And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can,   And then I will let you a better."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14358]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined. [Lat., Equidem aeterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum atentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space;  Nobody knows just when we begun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space;  Nobody knows just when we begun,   Or how fur we've gone in the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  So men were developed from monkeys of course,   Which nobody can deny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves where the cavemen dwell;    Then a sense of law and beauty,     And a face turned from the clod--      Some call it Evolution,       And others call it God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist--   Then he was a Man and a Positivist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,   And soars and shines, another and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To run my earthly course!    . . . .     I'm going to have a flowing tail!      I'm going to have a mane!       I'm going to stand fourteen hands high        On the Psychozoic plain!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty stream of tendency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty stream of tendency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in Babylon   And you were a Christian slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,    We might, for aught that I can say,     Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14334]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14338]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our parent race   Was found by old Monboddo.    Their A, B, C, he made them speak,     And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!      Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek       They knew as well's Monboddo!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10548]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10548</guid></item></channel></rss>