Quotes About Evolution

Stories, like all beings, have a life span. In their youth, their immune system is strong, but as time goes on they become increasingly unable to withstand the contrary evidence and experiences that pile up. In the end, I could no longer believe my own story. Who I had to be to maintain it—cynical, dismissive, patronizing, holding back from new experiences—became intolerable.

We do not have a new story yet.

One fails forward toward success.

We shall pick up an existence by its frogs.

That social organism is embryonic. That firmly to believe is to impede development. That only temporarily to accept is to facilitate.

Promiscuous animals, by and large, have smaller brains, for relationship demands a good deal of processing power, and promiscuity is a denial of relationship. Monogamy, as many of us know, is costly and hard: it demands work, though the pay-off can be profound. The work is often emotional work: give and take; forgiveness and forbearance.

People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

Evolution: that last step was a doozy!

Those who are horrified at Mr. Darwin's theory, may comfort themselves with the assurance that, if we are descended from the ape, we have not descended so far as to preclude all hope of return.

Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.

The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind.

As long as you're green, you're growing; as soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest.

If a cricket needs a reason For his wrinkled, vibrant singing, I would reckon, not the season, Not a mating call sent winging Or that evolution grew it, But, because he likes to do it!

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

What's the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.

All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.

Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed.

Medical History & Future. — A Short History of Medicine: 2000 B.C. – "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. – "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. – "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. – "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. – "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. – "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

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