Quotes About Evolution

But maybe the next Seattle will be both nowhere and everywhere—maybe it will be on the Internet.

The works of the past don't have to be right to be great works.

The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward

My grandfather was troubled and fascinated by this alteration from the girl of ten days before. Had the flirtatious gamine in the Ingrid Bergman sunglasses been a pose adopted for the evening, while this shapely vessel leaking sadness approximated something closer to the truth of herself? Or was it the other way around? Maybe neither version was the truth. Maybe self was a free variable with no bounded value. Maybe very time you met her, she would be somebody else.

A laboring woman, though, while she endured her labor, lay at the center of something truly radiant in four dimensions; every birth everywhere, all the vectors of human evolution and migration originating and terminating at the parting of her legs.

He was astonished at the course that life could take, at the way things that had seemed once to concern him so much--indeed to revolve around him--could turn out to have nothing to do with him at all.

Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.

I don't know if I went quite that far in my thinking." "But now?" "Now I don't think about it." "Yeah, I know." "You don't approve. You think I should just keep dredging it all up all the time." "Not all the time. Just, like, every ten years or so.

It was never just a question of escape. It was also a question of transformation.

Bosch counted twenty-two names and it made him miss the old Los Angeles Times. In 1993 it was big and strong, its editions fat with ads and stories produced by a staff of some of the best and brightest journalists in their field. Now the paper looked like somebody who had been through chemo—thin, unsteady, and knowing the inevitable could only be held off for so long.

But then the world changes and your own DNA can unlock everything and secrets aren't secrets anymore.

twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form

this goes forward it's going to get

The digital world was always billed as a great advancement but he remained skeptical.

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shifted one step

True stories evolve as details are remembered and others are forgotten. A false story, one that has been rehearsed in the mind, usually remains constant.

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Story of our species," Malcolm said, laughing. "Everybody knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.