Quotes About Evolution

Humankind must be pushed out of the nest if it is ever to grow beyond its current state.

Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate.

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

as I walked through the modern Carrousel.° The old Paris is gone. A town's complexion, like human hearts, never stays put at all.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

as the spirit wanes the form appears

what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.

a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

they are unhappy with what I have become

invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you. reinvigorate

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

But before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

è sempre un processo di lasciar perdere, in un modo o nell'altro.

Vaya sorpresa que te vas a llevar, amigo... ¡cuando descubras que nosotros los viejos retrógrados queremos también un mundo mejor! ¡sólo que no somos partidarios de QUEMAR la casa para librarnos de las termitas!

Dinosauria, we born

Last time I saw you, you had nothing. Now you've got a woman and a radio.

then came the manual typewriter. then the electric typer. and now this. it's as if I have been reborn.

wow, a change, you know. that's what kills a man: lack of change.

Secoli di poesia e siamo ancora al punto di partenza.

Nature's success stories, they are like Gause's protozoans; the world is their petri dish. Their populations grow at a terrific rate; they take over large areas, engulfing their environment as if no force opposed them. Then they hit a barrier. They drown in their own wastes. They starve from lack of food. Something figures out how to eat them.

Roughly speaking, two peoples' genomes differ in only about one out of every thousand bases. This is like having two pages in two different books differ by a single letter.