Quotes About Evolution

I think it's an amazing thing, the way people can change and open up. It shows how humanity is still alive in the world and how we can get better. We're the most adaptable, phenomenal machines ever created.

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

In Los Angeles, we've seen a phenomenon where a school will go from one that no one will go to, to within three years becoming the 'hot' school. I've seen this over and over again.

It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throughout history have also observed this phenomenon - that growth seems to move in two directions at the same time.

A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of 'daan' or 'giving' is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

The universe, in a big bang mode, is still expanding, which means it's cooling down, and evolution seems to be going against this; we're almost battling it. That led me on to a more creative, philosophical way of thinking, which is what led into influencing some of the songs, which is, maybe this is what our struggle is.

Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body we have.

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

Philosophy changes day by day.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

I used to walk miles to make a single phone call. Look how things have changed today.

There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.