Quotes About Evolution

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

Our Society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. It's an inevitability tourists can't help but realize when visiting Mayan ruins, Egyptian ruins, Roman ruins. How long will it be before someone is visiting American ruins?

The problem many people have is that the exact quality that originally attracted them to their partner becomes a threat once a serious relationship begins.

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marriage was an obsolete institution.

I recall very well a time when things were better at answer the age-old question: Do I move or make home improvements?

of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently

But a man can't swim in the same river twice, because it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

One can be a product only of one's own era, not anyone else's.

Subdesenvolvimento não se improvisa. É obra de séculos.

One had to live in the new world and do one's best, forgetting about the old; now it was push bikes

To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself.

Technologies come and go. The world remains a world of squares and towers.

the secret of our success as a species 'resides . . . in the collective brains of our communities

News of the Indian Mutiny had taken forty-six days to reach London in 1857, travelling at an effective speed of 3.8 miles an hour. News of the huge Nobi earthquake in Japan in 1891 took a single day, travelling at 246 miles an hour, sixty-five times faster.50

the dichotomy between network and hierarchy is an ancient idea.

En 1863, en Newcastle, el doctor James Hunt había dejado consternada a la audiencia de una reunión de la British Association for the Advancement of Science, al afirmar que los «negros» eran una especie separada de seres humanos, a medio camino entre el mono y el «hombre europeo».

To date, around 99.9 percent of all species ever to have inhabited Earth have become extinct.

Can it really be that England became the first industrial nation mainly because bad sanitation and disease kept life exceptionally short for the majority of people, giving the rich and enterprising minority a better chance to pass on their genes?

The life of a hunter-gatherer is indeed, as Thomas Hobbes said of the state of nature, 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.

Como Keynes dijo una vez, cuando los hechos cambian uno debe cambiar de opinión.

Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.