Quotes About Evolution

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History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Wouldn't things look much better for the human race if we no longer had history, at least no political history? The human being then would act more in accordance with the energies he possesses at any given time; for as things stand today, the example that now and then makes one person better makes a thousand others worse.

En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos que no son sino iniciales de otras

Darüber, daß sie nichts zum zweitenmal erfinden wollen, lernen sie alles so ansehen, wie es ihre Vorfahren angesehen haben. Der zweite Fehler ist aber gewiß schlimmer, als der erste.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from doubletalk.

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

Life, which evolved into ever more complex structures, was nature's substitute for directly bred computers," he wrote. "Yet it was more than a substitute: it was a road—a winding road, yet one which despite all errors and hazards, arrived at last at its destination.

ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life," von Neumann explained to Stan Ulam, "gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race.

Life evolved, so far, by making use of the viral cloud as a source of backup copies and a way to rapidly exchange genetic code. Life may be better adapted to the digital universe than we think.

The survival of the fittest is a slow method for measuring advantages," Turing argued in 1950. "The experimenter, by the exercise of intelligence, should be able to speed it up.

My reputation grows with every failure.