Quotes About Evolution

Far from being irreplaceable, we should be replaced. Fantasies of staying the hand of mortality are incompatible with the best interests of our species and the continuity of humankind's progress. More directly, they are incompatible with the best interests of our very own children. Tennyson says it clearly: "Old men must die; or the world would grow moldy, would only breed the past again.

Nature will always win in the end, as it must if our species is to survive.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Günümüzde, kasabas?ndaki bir dükkân?n sobas?n?n yan?nda dikilen bir çiftçinin zihni baÅŸkalar?n?n söylemleriyle dolup ta??yor. Onun zihnini böylesi dolduranlar ise gazeteler ve dergiler. Ä°çinde bir tür güzel, çocuksu masumiyetin de bar?nd??? eski kara cehaletin büyük bir k?sm? sonsuza kadar yok oldu.

I am becoming old and queer.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness. For it is in the healing of our psychic wounds that we come to know ourselves. . . . In the evolution of consciousness, our greatest problem is always our richest opportunity. ROBERT JOHNSON We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

All transitional times afford us the opportunity to redefine who we are; when we are in between identities, we become like a blank slate on which our past, present, and possible future are illuminated.

Fifty percent of human DNA is identical to the DNA of a banana. —

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

Improvement usually means doing something we have never done before.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

All relationships eventually come to an end.

He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier.

It was not me that changed; it was the situation that changed.

It is the leap from the age of territory to the age of science.

it's not enough to be up to date. We have to be up "to-morrow.

We all have unlimited shortcomings. Yet one way of seeing things is to consider our lives as a time frame that allows us continually to work at changing our weaknesses into strengths. This, I must say, is an intriguing task.

It took me twenty years to hone my current definition of Gone.

But in my experience as a teacher, enlightenment usually sneaks up on people. Sometimes they don't quite realize how enlightened they've become over time because they have gradually acclimatized to it.

It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say we should change our constitution now. The U.S. has amended its constitution six times, but Japan has done it zero times.

I will ensure that Japan keeps getting better--better this year than last year, and better next year than this year.