Quotes About Evolution

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

No one is an 'expert' on terrorism. That is nonsense. Terrorism is fluid. It changes daily. Terrorism used to be hijacking an aircraft and forcing the pilot to take it to another location. This evolved into holding hostages aboard the craft to force governments to do something. Now we have hijackers willing to die on an airplane and kill every passenger along with them. Terrorists have become more desperate and bold.

So Genesis 1 and 2 honor marriage as nothing less than the crowning glory of the creation of the universe. For us modern people who may see marriage as a product of human preference driving social evolution, that is a stunning claim. Moreover,

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

From a biological perspective, making mistakes is critical to new learning

The problem with religion right now. It hasn't evolved. And instead of being open and looking for ways to be relevant in today's world, it's gone all defensive and protective and it's regressed into lowest-common-denominator sound bites - and fundamentalism.

And it holds us back from better things, but mostly from coming to terms with the truth about who we've become, from embracing everything science has taught us and continues to teach us, from forcing us to make ourselves accountable for our own actions.

A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.

Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.

William Osler's ironical definition of man as 'the medicine-taking animal' is therefore justified inasmuch as it captures something distinctive about humans.

Trying to discover the contents of our ordinary Wednesdays in the tropisms of the evolved organism as reflected in brain activity is like applying one's ear to a seed and expecting to hear the rustling of the woods in a breeze.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

There was a time when everybody was busy doing, 'What is she wearing? How is she looking?' I am happy that is changing now.

Some people just stick to what they do, and it comes back to bite them in the butt.

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

If God used evolution, God came from an ape.

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?