Quotes About Evolution

In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?

It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence! That's why now we love talking continuously!

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.

Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

In love there is no status quo.

Since, beginning with the same premise and examining the same body of anthropological evidence, she now arrives at a slightly different sexual role for women, one might seriously question the basis upon which she decides the roles a woman should play -- and finds it so easy to change the rules of the game from one decade to the next.

The old frontiers have been conquered, and the boundaries of the new are not so clearly marked.

Betty Friedan via Lynn Gilbert

moved away, it was often for the purpose of acquiring new tools that could not have been acquired in any other way. When

Maybe when things start to change, you want to hold on to something familiar.

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billion years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

One of the hardest ideas for humans to accept,' he says, 'is that we are not the culmination of anything. There is nothing inevitable about our being here. It is part of our vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.