Quotes About Evolution

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

Melvilasam' broke a short, silent phase in my career.

I think television will do the same thing to radio that talkies did to silent movies.

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

The one consistent character in all of this is Chelsea Green, and that's how people know me, even as all else changes. I can go out and be the hot mess, or go hard in matches or be silly, and that's still all me.

I have grown up a lot over the years and now I can laugh about the silly mistakes I made on TV.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that movies were much bigger productions on every level and took much longer to shoot. I liked that. But with the advent of digital, everything can be done much quicker and cheaper, and that seems to be the goal of most movies and TV these days.

I don't like to stagnate. I'd get bored doing similar films.

I truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.

I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.