Quotes About Evolution

a myth is the matrix that is transformed from culture to culture, but basically remains essentially the same.

Thousands of repetitions and out of one's true self perfection emerges.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

The American Indian understood the purpose of life was to expand and magnify the Real Self. The purpose of life was the continuing evolution of the divine spirit within.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution '... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

It is high time that we grew up and left the Garden. We are indeed Eden's children, yet it is time to place Genesis alongside the geocentric myth in the basket of stories that once, in a world of intellectual naivete, made helpful sense. As we walk through the gates, aware of the dazzling richness of the genuine biological world, there might even be a smile on the Creator's face — that at long last His creatures have learned enough to understand His world as it truly is.

The successful mapping of the human genome was only a first big step, it turns out, one that would become the foundation for yet another quantum leap in biology. More advanced research, especially in the last decade, points to the advent of a new field called epigenetics, which studies the human epigenome.

Love slays what we have been, That we may be what we were not.

Love slays what we have been, That we may be what we were not. from "The Dragon and the Unicorn

The XP philosophy is to start where you are now and move towards the ideal. From where you are now, could you improve a little bit?

Incremental design—We invest in the design every day, but we have the additional constraint that we need to keep our APIs stable.

When you stop growing you start dying.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

I'm not concerned about anything anymore. It's kind of in the shadows. There's been a sea change on all of that. Things that I felt passionately about, I just don't anymore. I think that goes ... I think that goes with just being older and having had the privilege of having a full and active life, and now just fading, fading--fading away, like General MacArthur said.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

We were leaving the empty shells of our childhoods behind and becoming prey.

The game is changing so much. It's not the same game anymore and I don't know, I don't like it. And the money that they're giving these people -- they don't have to workout with their pads two days in a row. Their antics, it's not for me anymore, sorry to say.

The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.

We have used the words "mechanical life," "the mechanical kingdom," "the mechanical world" and so forth, and we have done so advisedly, for as the vegetable kingdom was slowly developed from the mineral, and as, in like manner, the animal supervened upon the vegetable, so now, in these last few ages, an entirely new kingdom has sprung up of which we as yet have only seen what will one day be considered the antediluvian prototypes of the race.

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

The path of cosmic spirituality is the great quest to evolve an immortal soul that is rich in quality and broad in extent because of our life experiences. But the journey also contributes at each step to the evolution of all other selves and souls, here and throughout the universe, and into an endless future.

They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!