Quotes About Evolution

And technology is a clock you cannot turn backward.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Darwin was constantly rereading his notes, discovering new implications.

the failure of language." "It's a creative destruction. Out of that failure comes culture. Out of culture comes desire. Out of desire come products.

growth. he said that if any feature didnt do that, he was not interested.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

Without music, the prehistoric past is just too quiet to be believed.

Volume 2 will begin with Cervantes and end with the most interesting novel of 2012.

Pop music has progressed.

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. [ Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005 ]

Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

As we care about more of humanity, we're apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.

a?a cum grânele noi ies din p?mânturile vechi, la fel ?i "toat? aceast? nou? ?tiin??" pe care oamenii o înva?? apare tot din b?trânele hâr?oage. Geoffrey Chaucer,1380, "Parlament al p?s?rilor

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

There was permanence in change. It was the only way life could flourish.

new city. With

the mind evolved to support our ability to act effectively.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

It is very hard to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.

As the much quoted lines of a novel of L. P. Hartley put it, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." I

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.