Quotes About Evolution

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.

We have to start a process of looking at what's next after we complete the modernization effort.

If the modes are changing, one goes along with it, I guess.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

I think the challenge for all technology companies is to modify what they're doing to be what the market needs at that point.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.

Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.

Maybe other musicians are interested in different things, maybe they have greater monetary concerns. I hear people who have not changed, who haven't elevated anything, who are the same as they were back in the '50s and '60s.

Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.

The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?