Quotes About Evolution

It wasn't only the Lorites who said that is not a new result. People re-invented the wheel all the time. There was nothing shameful in it. If the rest of us oohed and aahed and said, "Gosh, a wheel, no one's ever thought of that before," just to make that person feel good, nothing would ever get done.

The biggest single-celled organisms in the world. They live beneath the Antarctic ice. And as they grow, they take grains of sand from their environment and glue them together to form hard outer skins.

After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage

But the basic premise of Eutropianism is that technology has made us post-human. That Homo sapiens plus technology is effectively a whole new species: immortal, omnipresent because of the Net, and headed towards omnipotence.

Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport.

But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.

Testaceous turbinated exanguious animals—

Well, that's good. I don't think human-written code exists anymore. It's code written by code written by code—turtles all the way down.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo," Enoch said.

Our policies concerning free speech, telecommunications, and cryptography have evolved from a series of simple, rational decisions. But they are today so complex that no one can understand them, even in one single country, to say nothing of all countries taken together.

Yes, I am, but I'm also referring to certain white men in suits. It only takes a single generation to revert to savagery.

If wolves could become poodles in a few thousand years, think what humans could turn into, if there was a ne

We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies

Your mistake," Ng says, "is that you think that all mechanically assisted organisms—like me—are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than we were before.

Our use of knowledge progresses through successively higher levels of abstraction as we perfect civilization and draw nearer to the mentality of God

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

He was an unformed block, from which he was now laboring, literally, to sculpt a Renaissance Man. Reader, that was an attractive thing to watch.

It only takes a single generation to revert to savagery.

amística, un término acuñado hacía eones por un antropólogo moirano para referirse a las elecciones que hacían las diferentes culturas en cuanto a qué tecnologías formarían parte de su vida y cuáles no.

vehicles were as likely to move about on legs as wheels, so no one really cared about bumps in pavement. Modern utilities ran underground. Even had those things not been the case, the tax base wasn't there to support all those arborists and pavers. So the trees—all of them deciduous imports from the East Coast or Europe—had been doing as they pleased for decades. And what

In retrospect, the Internet had been a revolution in human affairs, but one that had taken place just slowly enough that those who'd lived through it had had time to adjust in modest increments. But, centuries from now, people—if there were any—would see it as having happened in the blink of an eye.

a culture medium for a medium culture.

I've posed this question myself. If the myth of the creator refers to the first single-celled, asexual being, how do we get to SEX?

period of geological cunnilingus.