Quotes About Evolution

when will we open them again our eyes, this must all be from the world of shut eyes, one's temples feel the cold, maybe one is inside a seashell, one is what another force is hearing—how lovely, we are being handed over to another force, listen, put this to your ear—the last river we know loses its form, widens, as if a foot were lifted from the dancefloor but not put down again, ever…

Estudiar la evolución cultural de la humanidad sin perderse en generalidades parece un proyecto megalómano, condenado al fracaso. No hace falta ser historiador para comprender que la

Nadie inventó el subjuntivo ni la conjunción copulativa. Fue una gigantesca interacción comunicativa, expresiva, hiriente o amorosa a la que pulió las herramientas lingüísticas.

Man's real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years

Nada de lo que el hombre ha sido, es o será, lo ha sido, lo es ni lo será de una vez para siempre, sino que ha llegado a serlo un buen día y otro buen día dejará de serlo.

La idea del principio en Leibniz ? la evolución de la teoría deductiva.

Romper la continuidad com el pasado, querer comenzar de nuevo, es apirar a descender y plagiar al orangután.

es, de fantasía, y aún hay que añadir, de una fantasía mudadiza que hoy imagina un mundo físico distinto del de ayer y mañana imaginará otro distinto del de hoy.

To remain in the past means to be dead.

Sure I tampered with my body chemistry -- and I emerged more than human! It's only a matter of time before an entire race of people are raised on steroids, and who knows what they'll be able to accomplish? Live to 150 years old, remain sexually potent into your nineties, interbreed with dolphins and whales, there's literally no limit to what steroids can do for a person. Do you know what it means to feel like God?

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Como dijo Gustav Schmoller, «la revolución puede evitarse siempre con las reformas oportunas».

El miedo al cambio social fue desde el principio la base de la solidaridad de «Occidente».

in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Every piece of business strategy… must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.