Quotes About Evolution

Species that struggle to adapt to survive will become extinct

When we descend to details we can prove that no one species has changed; nor can we prove that the supposed changes are beneficial, which is the groundwork of the theory.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

This is really life, this is doing something in the world, and in the presence of it you can see why the creators of it regard your world, which seemed to you so important, the world whose business is the evolution and expression of thought and emotion, as insignificant.

That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.

Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380

And she [Ada] thought momentarily that she ought to worry about losing her beauty, about having become brown and stringy and rough. And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life.

We all reach a point where we would like to draw a line across time and declare everything on the far side null. Shed

That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.

She had made her way to a place where an entirely other order prevailed from what she had always known.

I move the previous question

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

We will be the same person in 5 years that we are today except for 2 things: the people we meet and the book we read

Pues si los cambios que experimentan los animales inferiores son tan maravillosos y difíciles de descubrir, ¿por qué no habría de haber cambios igual de maravillosos o más, e igualmente difíciles de descubrir, en los seres superiores? ¿No

wolf bone was the Stone Age equivalent of a supercomputer.

Simple! On the very first day that I started working at the museum, I asked a scientist the very same question. He told me that the skeleton was sixty-five million years old. That was thirty-eight years ago.

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)

Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons -- literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331)

Better get accustomed to it, she told herself, mentally adding a note to her checklist: relearn how to human.

fewer and fewer of our progenitors were replicating themselves via the weird, squishy process to which they devoted their organs of entertainment.

the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.

This compares to a 202 base pair difference between us and Neanderthals