Quotes About Evolution

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

A human life is an endless process of becoming, a constant dance between character and circumstance.

Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can't be any good!

Nothing is the same.

Todas las fotografías son espejos de lo que fuimos, pero no de lo que somos ni de lo que seremos.

When the moon reaches fullness, it begins to wane. ????

In a life, most of us turn no more than 45 degrees. Not much compared to those who turn full-circle in the slighest breeze or those who totally uncoil, but enough in the end to tell a bag of diamonds from a sack of coal.

We share a common ancestor with chimps that is not shared by mandrills, we share a common ancestor with mandrills that is not shared by bushbabies, and on and on and on, to the ancestor we share with nematode worms that is not shared with oak trees.

Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.

Other reasons have been postulated for why Neanderthals died out, but my contention is that the combination of the new Systemizing Mechanism, enabling complex tool-making, and the Empathy Circuit, enabling complex social interaction and deception, led Homo sapiens to become unrivaled.

Todavía no hemos acabado? ¿Por qué necesitamos todas estas fuentes nuevas? La respuesta, entonces y ahora, es la misma: porque el mundo y lo que contiene están en perpetuo cambio. Necesitamos poder expresarnos de nuevas maneras.

We're still analogue beings. Our brains and eyes are analogue.

Vooralsnog hebben e-mails niet hetzelfde effect in een verhaal, omdat e-mails niet worden aangetroffen op zolder of onder een losse plank onder de vloer, of in dozen als mensen doodgaan.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.

Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.

People don't change when others tell them they should. People change when they tell themselves they must.

Marriage changed me. As it should. I signed myself up for a partnership.

True, I can fly at Mach-50 without effort and emit regenerative energy when I touch my brother, but mostly that's behind me.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.