Quotes About Evolution

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.

The template: On the verge of a Stasis = Death moment, a flawed protagonist Breaks into Two; but when the Midpoint happens, he/she must learn the Theme Stated, before All Is Lost.

The Covenant of the Arc is the screenwriting law that says: Every single character in your movie must change in the course of your story. The only characters who don't change are the bad guys. But the hero and his friends change a lot.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Along the way my loyalties had shifted without my even realizing it.

Every day we get better, or we get worse.

Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

While micro-evolution--change within species--has been observed in the laboratory, macro-evolution--change from one species to another has not, and never will be.

We, of course, have the advantage of hindsight. Who can say which of today's widely repeated seeming truisms about the big bang, string theory, or the universe's origins will seem ludicrous a century hence?

Fossil remains attest to the presence of prehistoric protohorses on the North American prairie until the end of the Pleistocene epoch, 10,000 years ago. The earliest of these animals had toes instead of hooves and were the size of foxes.

He who's not busy being born is busy dying

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

The order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

For organizations to survive and grow, their rate of learning has to be equal to, or greater than, the rate of change in their environment.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

By the year 2000 the United States as you know it will cease to exist!

Digital has changed delivery systems -- pipes -- but it hasn't changed what's going through the pipes.

Anthropologists speculate that previously there was another species of human-like primates that did not have the brand gene. These proto-humans walked upright and developed primitive tools, but couldn't tell Jif from Skippy, and believed Evian and Crystal Geyser were pretty much the same stuff. Scientists marvel at their survival.