Quotes About Evolution

Being uncomfortable is good, beta. It's in discomfort that growth happens.

Because traditions are like eggs—once you break one, it is impossible to put it back inside its shell.

We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can only happen when we change that narrative, when we begin to tell ourselves and others a different story. Surely

Without understanding how your inner nature evolves, how can you possibly discover eternal happiness? Where is eternal happiness? It's not in the sky or in the jungle; you won't find it in the air or under the ground. Everlasting happiness is within you, within your psyche, your consciousness, your mind. That's why it is so important that you investigate the nature of your own mind.

You can't determine for yourself the way things should be. Things change by their very nature. How can you tie down any idea? You can see that you can't.

metanoesis—from

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Shane wasn't far removed from the man he'd been when he passed out on Gayle King's shoulder as Jesse Williams announced that he'd won the 2009 NAACP Award for Outstanding Fiction.

Over the years, during lazy daydreams, she'd sometimes allowed herself to fantasize about running into him. But in her thoughts, they'd still been kids. She couldn't imagine them relating to each other as adults. Whatever Shane sparked in her, she'd thought she'd outgrown. But they weren't who they used to be. They were better.

History doesn't repeat itself," said Shane. "But it rhymes." "Who said that? Nas?" "Mark Twain.

I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.

Do you think people can change?" I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.

the past was a worthless human ability that had evolved for the sole purpose of reminding mortals of their mistakes.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

If man evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

In a similar vein, John Videler (2006) of Leiden University suggested the "Jesus Christ dinosaur" model of flight origins, whereby protobirds may have gained advantages for both escape and foraging by running over the surface of water rather than land.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Motorcycle camping is an evolution and can take a lifetime to perfect.

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

Millions of people across our great land who want nothing more than to be left alone and pursue their own happiness of believing mean-spirited bullshit. Except society has evolved away from ignorance. And that's where we come in." "How?" "We make being shitty feel good again.

You think we started with a bunch of prehistoric ooze, and some of it just happened to turn into Bella Abzug?" They shook their heads. "There were some dead ends along the way, hence natural selectivity. But for my money, the rest is God in a Darwin costume. So if you can wrap your brain around self-organization, then evolution is intelligent design. The Lord is even greater!…But I'm not sure.

beg them to compare the Oostvaardersplassen not with their dreamtime Europe of the classical age, but with a long-vanished continent where large mammals, rather than agricultural practices, shaped landscapes.

All abiding good comes, as it has been well said, by evolution not by revolution…