Quotes About Evolution

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Questions for U2: 'What record would you like to make – i.e. how would you like this to be read? How would you like to get there? Does it bother you if the result is 'undemocratic'? How much cheating is allowed? How much me?' Lincoln's axe: 'This is Lincoln's original axe. The head has been replaced three times and the handle twice.

Not to mince words Mr. Epstein, we don't like your boys' sound. Groups of guitarists are on the way out.

They drove, the city slowly dissolving around them and breaking up into fields and trees.

But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of... fact.

A-that it is not the literal past, the 'facts ' of history, that shape us, but images of that past embodied in language. B-we must never cease renewing those images; because once we do, we fossilise.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

For the first time she realized she'd spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that she'd never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods?

Sometimes it seems as if the best technology is still only catching up to what nature has already figured out.

Confronted with social collapse and chaos people had to learn a new mentality (conventionally called "consciousness"). In other words, subjective experience was a product of several centuries of learning new ways to navigate cultural complexity, not a consequence of biological evolution.

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it's strange to look at your reflection in the mirror and see the person you really are staring back at you, rather than the person who you used to be.

According to most writers, groups of souls tend to reincarnate together again and again, working out their karma (debts owed to others and to the self, lessons to be learned) over the span of many lifetimes. In

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Se nos dan poderes intuitivos que debemos obedecer sin tratar de resistirnos. Quienes se resistan tropezarán con peligros. No se nos envía desde cada plano con poderes iguales. Algunos de nosotros poseemos poderes mayores que los otros, pues los hemos adquirido en otros tiempos. Luego, no todos somos creados iguales. Pero con el paso del tiempo llegaremos a un punto en el que todos seremos iguales.

Según casi todos los escritores, los grupos de almas tienden a reencarnarse juntos una y otra vez, para elaborar el karma (deudas para con otros y para con uno mismo, lecciones que hay que aprender) a lo largo de muchas vidas.

at a seminal yet still little known moment in history, Homo sapiens developed the full battery of cognitive skills that we ourselves possess. After a surprisingly short time, perhaps a mere five thousand years, their descendants moved northward into Eurasia and Europe.

As the late Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould once memorably remarked, we humans are all descendants from the same African twig.