Quotes About Evolution

We humans might have evolved too far. The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness.

The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious about this: smart organisms by and large survive better and leave more offspring than stupid ones.

Taken together, the dramatic societal shifts – often in ten generations or less – provide a compelling refutation of the claim that we are condemned, without hope of reprieve, to live out our lives in a barely disguised chimpanzee social order.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

Well, they say nature hates a vacuum. - That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Humanity is just a work in progress.

The human is not a fixed entity from the beginning but, along with the rest of creation, is in the process of becoming.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Time will perfect matter.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

If nature represents a principle of economy, then culture surely must exemplify the principle of innovation through excess.

Los recuerdos no cambian y cambiar es ley de todo lo existente.

I thought you just told me they used radio." They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.

Well, he said softly, in this life you're often born one thing and die another. You don't have to accept that what you're given when you come in is all you'll have when you leave.

Things change. Life changes. Nothing stays the same.

What do you care?" Arik Siq asked. "Who your people were matters hardly at all. Who they are now is what matters. Who you are." "Your history is sometimes a way of understanding your present," Pan replied. "You are your history.

Life went on, no matter the magnitude of the events that influenced it.

Life just swept you along and never took you back to where you had been.

Everything changes with time's passage. Only change itself is constant.

Your history is sometimes a way of understanding your present," Pan replied. "You are your history.

You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.