Quotes About Evolution

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

c. "So, hunny, don't waste your time trying to label or define me…'cause I'm not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I'm all of that and then some. And whereas I can't live inside yesterday's pain, I can't live without it.

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Sixty-some years ago, biochemical organisms began to assemble digital computers. Now digital computers are beginning to assemble biochemical organisms. Viewed from a distance, this looks like part of a life cycle. But which part? Are biochemical organisms the larval phase of digital computers? Or are digital computers the larval phase of biochemical organisms?

The obsidian flake and the silicon chip are struck by the light of the same campfire that has passed from hand to hand since the human mind began.

Are we using digital computers to sequence, store, and better replicate our own genetic code, thereby optimizing human beings, or are digital computers optimizing our genetic code—and our way of thinking—so that we can better assist in replicating them?

Humans were still in the loop but no longer in control.

The conditions for developing organisms with many of the properties considered characteristic of living beings, by evolutionary processes, do not have to be similar to those prevailing on Earth," he concluded, based on his numerical evolution experiments at the IAS. "There is every reason to believe that any planet on which a large variety of molecules can reproduce by interconnected (or symbiotic) autocatalytic reactions, may see the formation of organisms with the same properties.

Software was born. Numerical codes would be granted full control—including the power to modify themselves.1

Google sought to gauge what people were thinking, and became what people were thinking.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

There is little use in asking for an explanation of the eighty years' gap: the man for the occasion did not appear sooner, and might never have appeared. When he did, however, the challenge of Ghaz?l? was still felt to be a live issue; intellectual evolution was slower in those days. In Ibn Rushd's criticisms of Ghaz?l? we perceive a bantering animosity which treats "Ab? H?mid" almost as a living contemporary.

The United States periodically reaches a point of crisis in which it appears to be at war with itself, yet after an extended period it reinvents itself, in a form both faithful to its founding and radically different from what it had been.

the idea that the past is obsolete is always resisted at an era's end.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey—and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.