Quotes About Evolution

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Mathematical Ideas in Biology

pattern, especially pattern that appeared on different scales at the same time. They had a taste for randomness and complexity, for jagged edges and sudden leaps. Believers in chaos—and they sometimes call themselves believers, or converts, or evangelists—speculate about determinism and free will, about evolution, about the nature of conscious intelligence. They feel that they are turning back a trend in science toward reductionism, the analysis of systems

Believers in chaos-and they sometimes call themselves believers, or converts, or evangelists-speculate about determinism and free will, about evolution, about the nature of conscious intelligence. They feel that they are turning back a trend in science toward reductionism, the analysis of systems in terms of their constituent parts: quarks, chromosomes, or neurons. They believe that they are looking for the whole.

The information comes via evolution.

Human computers had no future, he saw:

What we call the past is built on bits. —John Archibald Wheeler

Samuel Butler had said a century earlier—and did not claim to be the first—that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Butler was quite serious, in his way:

To spell (from an old Germanic word) first meant to speak or to utter. Then it meant to read, slowly, letter by letter. Then, by extension, just around Cawdrey's time, it meant to write words letter by letter. The last was a somewhat poetic usage. "Spell Eva back and Ave shall you find," wrote

Cuanto más apunta la curva del flujo de información hacia una mayor conectividad, más rápido evolucionan los memes y más se expanden.

En el juego de la supervivencia algunos vehículos juegan mejor, maniobran mejor, y se propagan mejor que otros.

biology has become an information science

There is no force in the life of ancient man, the influence of which so pervades all his activities as does that of the religious faculty. Its fancies explain for him the world about him, its fears are his hourly master, its hopes his constant Mentor, its feasts are his calendar, and its outward usages are to a large extent the education and the motive toward the gradual evolution of art, literature and science.

The two of us stood gazing at the gleaming rows without any idea that it was nearly all useless and that the days of the old medicines were nearly over. Soon they would be hustled into oblivion by the headlong rush of the new discoveries and they would never return.

Occasionally throughout the ages, the clouds of history show a rift and through it the sun of human betterment shines out for a few deceptive moments over a limited area.

Having an open mind. You don't have to be who you are when you can't help it.

I am not the same a small voice says. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.

Seriously. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

I left yesterday behind me, all I wanted was to change the world. Today I am changing me.