Quotes About Evolution

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Men are born, and then they're formed.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this since he had heard that Google Earth in turn was based on an idea from some old science fiction novel

boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something

These simple terms—"come about," for example—denote procedures that are as complicated and tradition-bound as the installation of a new Pope.

No one thought about the big picture for a few thousand years. We were all scrambling to survive.

He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world.

He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world. And so he had an instinctive skepticism of any system of thought, religious or theorical, that pretended to encompass that miracle, and in so doing sought to draw limits around it.

One of the funny things about it, in retrospect, was its slowness, the lack of any dramatic Moment When It Had Happened. It was a little bit like the world's adoption of the Internet, which had started with a few nerds and within decades become so ubiquitous that no person under thirty could really grasp what life had been like before you could Google everything.

Our brains are flies, bats, and worms that clumped together for mutual advantage. These parts of our brains are talking to each other all the time. Translating what they perceive, moment to moment, into the shared language of geometry. That's what a brain is. That's what it is to be conscious.

From an evolution standpoint, what was the point of having people around who were not inclined to have offspring? There must be some good, and fairly subtle, reason for it. The only thing he could work out was that it was groups of people—societies—rather than individual creatures, who were now trying to out-reproduce and/or kill each other, and that, in a society, there was plenty of room for someone who didn't have kids as long as he was up to something useful.

The Victorian system used Darwinian techniques to create killers adapted to their prey, which was elegant and effective but led to the creation of killers that were simply too bizarre to have been thought up by humans, just as humans designing a world never would have thought up the naked mole rat.