Quotes About Evolution

Lost their stomachs, sealed up their anuses and adopted the autotroph way

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Nothing changes and everything does.

Science grows like a weed every year.

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.

And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won't be the same you that makes life worth living this time next year. Identities aren't meant to be permanent. They're like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, living well means finding a new model that better suits us for a new moment.

The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

It is all stone upon stone, one at a time, relentless as cells. . . . And stone is the DNA of the exterior world.

Women have waited millions of years growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

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Now think of life in the same terms. Start over when you have to. Make a second draft. Or a third. Embrace the chance you have to do things over again in a different, better, wiser way.

poet Taylor Mali—that 'changing your mind is one of the best ways of finding out whether or not you still have one'.

W.W. Rostow's Five Stages of Growth (Twentieth-Century Journey) 1. Traditional society 2. Preconditions for take-off 3. Take-off 4. Drive to maturity 5. Age of high mass-consumption

As the ingenious twentieth-century inventor Buckminster Fuller once said, 'You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

the idea of ever-growing output fits snugly with the widely used metaphor of progress being a movement forwards and upwards.

Given the value of fast and frugal heuristics such as this one, perhaps we should think of ourselves not as rational man but as heuristic man and be proud of it too: what first appears to be a failure of rationality might be better thought of as a triumph of evolution.

we have to look back over the past 100,000 years of life on Earth. For almost all of that time—as early humans trekked out of Africa and blazed a trail across continents—Earth's average temperature spiked up and down. But during just the last 12,000 years or so, it has been warmer, and far more stable too. This recent period of Earth's history is known as the Holocene.

Over the course of two centuries—from the 1770s to the 1970s, as economic man's depiction morphed from a nuanced portrait to a crude cartoon—what had started as a model of man had turned into a model for man.

but some conventions cannot

the medical journal The Lancet explained the process by which the dreadfuls could foster violence. People of a lower evolutionary type, the journal said, had an ape-like tendency to imitation. If exposed to stories of suicide or murder, degenerate individuals might be impelled to act them out.