Quotes About Evolution

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

When you look at traditions closely, examine what they really are, you realize they're made up of layers and layers of deferrals, delays, indecisions, tomorrows and long lunches.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Your traditions change from when you are child to when you become an adult.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.

My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything.

I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions.

You have to accept that traditions exist, that people don't change their minds very quickly, that people are scared.

I respect traditions, you can't walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving on.

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.

What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

When I got to Hollywood, there wasn't even a Boulevard. I'm that old. It was just a little dirt trail. I'm kidding.

I think anyone who lays a long trail of creative work over the years can't help but look back and wonder, 'What was I thinking?'

By year three, you get nicer, bigger trailers.