Quotes About Evolution

Some things have never changed in India. Melody, for one. The sound has changed, the rhythm has changed, and lyrics have become more contemporary.

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

Particularly since the computerization of the world, the impact of media has grown enormously. The printed books and the printed media have become less important. Why should somebody read Laozi or Confucius if he can Google?

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

But maybe someday I'll be reporting on the sidelines instead of dancing on the sidelines.

Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.

CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.

Talk about full circle, I never saw this coming. It wasn't like I said, 'Someday, I want to be the head coach at the University of Memphis.'

The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Honestly, I think people change after meeting someone you love.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

You leave America, then you go someplace else, you begin to create something totally different.

Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

Evolutionary biologists have long pondered the phenomenon of the changing colours of autumn leaves. It's possible that the red pigments are manufactured in the leaf as a side-effect of something else that's happening at this time.

By the time you do what somebody else is doing, everybody has moved on to something else.