Quotes About Evolution

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

though you can't actually run away from yourself, if you are to change you must transcend this ever present background, the influences of which have already affected your state of mind.

But the term code-script is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow.

some species or even large groups seem to have reached the end of their evolutionary possibilities a very long time ago, yet they have not died out, but have remained unchanged, or without significant change, for many millions of years.

THE STRIKING CONTRAST In biology we are faced with an entirely different situation.

Dutchman de Vries discovered that in the offspring even of thoroughly pure-bred stocks, a very small number of individuals, say two or three in tens of thousands, turn up with small but 'jump-like' changes, the expression 'jump-like' not meaning that the change is so very considerable, but that there is a discontinuity inasmuch as there are no intermediate forms between the unchanged and the few changed. De Vries called that a mutation.

Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome.

Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany.

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

You are growth-seeking Beings, and as you are moving forward, you are at your happiest.

When you feel love or joy—or any positive emotion—you are literally being the expanded version that life has caused you to become. When you feel fear, anger, or despair—or any negative emotion—you are not, in this moment, by virtue of whatever it is that you are giving your attention to, allowing yourself to be that new expanded version … you are not letting yourself keep up with who you have become.

it is not possible to stand still or be stuck, because Energy, and therefore life, is always in motion. Things are always changing.

Simply put, if someone had not prodded you into more expansion, you could not feel the pain of not keeping up with that expansion. The interaction

Your current situation is a platform of experience that inspires the next thought and the next. When

That overall, all-inclusive, never-changing set of rules does not exist—for you are ever-changing, growth-seeking Beings.

If that which was figured out long ago was the ultimate, then there would be no reason for your existence today.

The expansion of the Universe and the evolution of all species is dependent on contrast. How could you ever decide what you do want, without living some of what you don't want? And so, be easy on yourself! Do not try to hold yourself to the impossible standard of only being in a place where everything is exactly as you want it to be. If you could do that you would cease to exist.

You intended Freedom, Growth and Joy. This triad of intentions, if you are sensitive to the way you are feeling, will keep you moving on the perfect path of evolution. These Core intentions that are within you -- if you pay attention to the way that you feel -- will keep you moving joyfully forward, so that your growth is steady, so that your joy is constant, so that your freedom is assured Abraham-- G 2/17/91

Life Is Always in Motion, So You Cannot Be "Stuck

Monogamy used to mean one person for life. Now monogamy means one person at a time.

It takes two people to create a pattern, but only one to change it.