G. Ledyard Stebbins quotes

G. Ledyard Stebbins quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.”
-- G. Ledyard Stebbins

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“After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.”
-- G. Ledyard Stebbins

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“A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.”
“Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.”
“In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.”
“Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.”
“Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.”
“The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.”

Source : "LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. March 24, 2008.
“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.”
“all the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution ...”
“Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.”
“Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.”

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