Quotes About Evolution

Clients seem to move toward more openly being a process, a fluidity, a changing. They are not disturbed to find that they are not the same from day to day, that they do not always hold the same feelings toward a given experience or person, that they are not always consistent. They are in flux, and seem more content to continue in this flowing current. The striving for conclusions and end states seems to diminish.

In biblical times or in ancient Greece, sex was regarded as something that human beings did; today it is considered to be something vital to who human beings are.

Don't be committed to the guess, be committed to the process of guessing.

Parental care, satisfaction, friendship, compassion, and grief didn't just suddenly appear with the emergence of modern humans. All began their journey in pre-human beings. Our brain's provenance is inseparable from other species' brains in the long cauldron of living time. And thus, so is our mind.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves.

parasites make up the majority of species on Earth. According to one estimate, parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one. In other words, the study of life is, for the most part, parasitology. The book in your

It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon we use against bacteria. And now, ninety years after Herelle first encountered bacteriophages, these viruses may finally be ready to become a part of modern medicine.

You are only as good as your last mistake.

Entropy derives from the Greek "conversion", "mutation", "evolution", but also "confusion" and "shame" (this latter meaning one finds in the writings of Hippocrates in the form ).

We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being.

We not only learn, but we also learn to gradually change our conceptual framework and to adapt it to what we learn.

I believe that we need to adapt our philosophy to our science, and not our science to our philosophy.

Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.

We are the products of a long selection process of chemical, biological, and cultural structures that at different levels have interacted for a long time in order to shape the funny process that we are.

What Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, and many others did was to build upon preexisting theories that synthesized empirical knowledge across vast fields of nature, and to find a way of combining and rethinking them, to improve the general picture.

Los dioses se alejan cada día un poco más en sus cielos. El hombre se queda solo, a merced de un mundo en revolución. Las líneas que Jaynes escribe sobre este período son muy bellas. En ellas percibimos el eco del célebre lamento [Tablilla «Ludlul bel nemeqi», figura 19]: Mi dios me abandonó y desapareció. Mi diosa me visita con menos frecuencia y se mantiene distante. El ángel bueno que caminaba a mi lado se fue…

Probability does not refer to the evolution of matter in itself. It relates to the evolution of those specific quantities we interact with.

That which seems intuitive to us now is the result of scientific and philosophical elaborations in the past.

we understand the world by studying change, not by studying things.

Time passes more slowly for the one who keeps moving.

Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution.

Therefore the scientific quest for knowledge is not nourished by certainty, it is nourished by a radical lack of certainty. Its way is fluid, capable of continuous evolution, has immense strength and a subtle magic. It is able to overthrow the order of things and reconceive the world time and again.