Quotes About Evolution

What you're thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter.

Freedom, he was learning, was not a set point, like the temperature at which water freezes, but something mutable, a moving target.

Don't assume that what happens in our future invalidates what happened in our past.

Things happen and you change directions

Bernard patted his arm and said, 'Hitesh, old flower, Christmas is exactly the same, it's you who have changed.

Things had changed in a way that no one could have ever expected - and I ached with regret.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

The entire country was like a linguistic and cultural Galápagos.

the agency of a creator, who is not however always the starting point, and we find that the theory of evolution is combined with the theory of creation, so that Prajâpati is sometimes spoken of as the creator while at other times the creator is said to have floated in the primeval water as a cosmic golden egg. Eschatology;

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

Just like genes, the memes have no foresight. They cannot be expected to foresee that almost anything might happen. They might even, in the process of diverting our energies from the genes, just wipe us out.

Memes, like genes, are selected against the background of other memes in the meme pool. The result is that gangs of mutually compatible memes – coadapted meme complexes or memeplexes – are found cohabiting in individual brains. This is not because selection has chosen them as a group, but because each separate member of the group tends to be favoured when its environment happens to be dominated by the others.

Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.

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Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do—these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane.

I don't really think my work breaks into periods. In fact, if you listen to my work in all its so-called periods, what you should hear is continuity.

I just soak things up and learn as time goes on.

In the '90s, I kind of put aside all those things I loved in the '80s and I got really into watching foreign films and art films and stuff like that, and sort of soaking those up.

Gone are the days of just containing through the middle, gone are the days of just soaking up pressure. You've got to be able to take wickets.

Every show has to end one day. It's part and parcel of a soap.

I think audiences were somewhere fed up with watching the same Saas-Bahu soaps all the time. I've been part of one of them.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

Soccer was actually my first love, but eventually, basketball took that over.