Quotes About Evolution

Change might be opportunity, instead of disaster.

Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.

Excellence doesn't persist; time passes, and mediocrity asserts itself.*

It's not always wrong to be wrong.

For one thing, we're doing publishing wrong.

Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are. This insight isn't new.

The past is not necessarily what it was, even though it has already been. The present is chaotic and indeterminate. The ground shifts continually around her feet, and ours. Equally, the future, not yet here, changes into something it was not supposed to be.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

Al aumentar desproporcionadamente el tamaño de una zona cerebral hace que esta tienda a contactar con zonas que antes no inervaba, produciéndose una interacción entre estas zonas que no se daba en la especie ancestral, lo que puede llevar a mejoras funcionales.

Algunos investigadores, como Richard Klein, atribuyen dicha revolución cultural a una mutación genética, la cual se habría producido hace unos 50.000 años, que mejoró la capacidad cognitiva en nuestra especie.

Instalados durante millones de años en la patria común africana, evento tras evento y golpe tras golpe, nuestros antepasados forjaron las sucesivas semillas que desembocaron en lo que, para bien o para mal, nos hemos convertido. No hay duda. Somos hijos de la crisis.

El pasado inmediato condiciona el necesario futuro.

El pretender que la cultura sea un fenómeno exclusivamente humano conlleva serios y graves problemas similares a los inherentes a la no aceptación de la evolución biológica; pensar que la cultura emergió de la nada del brazo del género Homo es caer nuevamente en una vieja trampa.

Los humanos son inestables y siempre ambicionan más de lo que tienen. La evolución y la historia tenían que habernos enseñado eso.

El tiempo siempre suele dar una perspectiva distinta de las cosas...

if there were once more stars visible to us than there are today, what once-obvious facts are we missing because humans arrived nearly fourteen billion years after the party started?

There is always room for improvement, you know—it's the biggest room in the house." —Louise Heath Leber

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Every writer creates his own precursors.

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

La palabra "antes" se vacía de contenido a medida que nos acercamos al origen de los tiempos.

The permanent is ebbing. Is leaving nothing in the way of trails, they are blown over, grasses shoot up, life disturbing life…