Quotes About Evolution

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.

Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!

Soon I was to find that people who had been creative at one stage of growth now seemed empty of ideas—and worse, they seemed not to notice that the ground had moved up under their feet! As I grew and encountered higher ideals and new goals, what had once been acceptable now seemed lethargic at best and lethal if ignored. You can't take everyone with you just because they were with you where you were before.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." ( Little Gidding )

One cannot step twice into the same river

Nobody's so great that they can't get better.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Pozna?em ca?? zwierz?co?? swego gatunku i ca?? niezwyk?? anielsko??. Przeszed?em t? ciernist? drog? pojedynczej ewolucji, któr? zowi? losem. Jestem jednym z was. Jestem doskona?ym anonimem homo sapiens.

Little by little, a little becomes a lot.

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

It's not yesterday anymore

The change would be very subtle... It might take ten years or so...

Today's syntax is tomorrow's morphology

According to Hegel, the slave fully acknowledges the self-consciousness of the master and she dissolves herself or upholds herself as their relationship dictates and evolves to the struggle unto death. Although this struggle is a failure, according to Hegel, if someone actually dies.

We all change. The causes are different; that's all. Some people change because they want to, some because they have to. Sometimes it's a choice and sometimes it's not. You didn't get to pick.

Necessity, it turns out, isn't really the mother of invention; it's the mother of the process that turns an invention into a product, and in late-eighteenth-century Europe, that mother was ready.

none of us knows anything. We think we know, then it turns out that we don't. The universe has a way of intervening. Of changing you. In the end, you don't know what you're seeking, and you don't know what you'll find.

I'm the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.