Quotes About Evolution

Humanity's destiny is to become more like us; Daniel is the symbol of this.

Today, I would step off the narrow, twisty path of childhood, with all its secret haunts, and put one foot on the wide road of womanhood.

Emma realised how beautiful Daniel had become. In Little Moor, she'd seen him as a gawky boy, but now his svelte body was that of a very attractive young man.

The young are evolving into a new species, which is stronger, sharper and more beautiful than their forerunners. Androgynous beings, they transcend gender and race. They possess keen psychic abilities and the means, through a process called inception, to transform humans into creatures like themselves. But they are wild in their rebirth and must strive to overcome all that is human within them in order to create society anew. They are the Wraethru…

We create ourselves constantly.

There are many forms of death and not all are final.

All the time, I feel myself changing, pushing against a barrier or resistance, like a creature trying to break out of a shell. When the shell is broken, I will be different, and I have no way of knowing how.

If that is what you will become, then so be it. It is what you are.

You have begun a change, a leap forward in your evolution. It will take a while to complete, but it has begun.

All seeds require a protracted growth period.

Funny how the camera had so quickly lost all its depressing associations. Ari looked on this as a good omen.

He felt different now, as if a new personality had come to inhabit his body.

You are different, Daniel, but then this is a changed world to the one where we once walked as friends.

New cities are born, so old ones must die. That seems logical to me.

History enters when the space of the possible is vastly larger than the space of the actual.

We are agents who alter the unfolding of the universe.

In short, given continuous spacetime, there are a second-order infinity of possible histories of the biosphere.

history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.

Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.

The biosphere explodes in diversity, creating more and more cracks in the floor of Darwin's nature until the cracks, ever expanding, become the very floor of nature, and nature herself.

I need not to show you the incapacity to predict in deterministic chaotic systems is emphatically not the same as the failure to prestate or predict Darwinian preadaptations. in the deterministic chaotic case, we know beforehand the state space of the system, in the simplest case, three continuous variables and their ranges. But in sharp contrast, we do not know beforehand the state space, or sample space, of the evolving biosphere and the emergence in the nonergodic universe of swim bladders.

Yesterday's deconstructions are often tomorrow's orthodox clichés.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

The new idea is here: Control is very old-fashioned, and our societies will change gradually as people come to see that the old system just doesn't work. I