Quotes About Evolution

Orgel's rule—"Evolution is smarter than you

the only way to get there was to burn through capitalism, to get through that unavoidable stage as fast as possible.

ideas are exactly as interested in the brains they're in as genes are in the bodies they're in: just enough to get themselves copied...Like computer viruses.

None of its components were conscious beings. As post-conscious AIs, they were well beyond that. They

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be.

Cultural identities are always evolving, but education is one of the ways in which communities try to control the rate of change. This is why there's always such heat generated around the content of education.

education doesn't need to be reformed—it needs to be transformed.

The problem is that too often, and in too many ways, current systems of mass education are a catastrophe in themselves. Far from looking to the future, too often they are facing stubbornly towards the past.

If the world were to turn upside down tomorrow, they'd figure out a way to evolve their talents to accommodate these changes.

La tercera limitación está en nuestra escasa comprensión del potencial que tenemos para crecer y cambiar.

It can be just as helpful to focus on the immediate next steps. Beginning the journey, and being willing to explore various pathways, can be as productive as setting out with a final destination in mind.

Compare these accomplishments with the premature resignation of people you know in their thirties or forties, who behave as if their lives have settled into a dull routine and who see little opportunity to change and evolve.

The impossible yesterday is routine today. Wait until tomorrow.

We build our own cultures not only on the achievements of those that have come before but on their ruins.

Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2070. No one has any idea of what the world will look like in ten years' time, let alone in 2070. There are two major drivers of change—technology and demography.

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

The beauty of practice is that it transforms us so that we outgrow our original intentions—and keep going! Our motivations for practicing evolve as we mature.

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.

To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being.

The first was that culture, not biology, was the principal force that shaped human affairs; the second, that humanity comprised a multitude of cultures that could not be ranked on an evolutionary scale, but each of which had to be understood in its own terms.