Quotes About Evolution

Then why does every sentence beginning 'We need to talk' end in disaster? Our whole evolutionary history has been about trying to stop information from getting communicated—camouflage, protective coloration, that ink that squids squirt, encrypted passwords, corporate secrets, lying. Especially lying. If people really wanted to communicate, they'd tell the truth, but they don't.

Grandmother. Agnes had not said anything like "grandmother." The word hadn't even existed until the eighteenth century

He watched the screen go gray.

Para dónde se va la oscuridad cuando sale el sol? Para ninguna parte, se convierte en luz.

You could be the ugliest, nastiest most miserable piece of shit known to man, but if you had a beating heart there was always a chance you'd turn into a diamond after a million years.

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

Evolution cannot avoid bringing intelligent life ultimately to an awareness of one thing above all else and that one thing is futility.

I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human. I want to be as old as I can be.

The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation.

It's all right to say that the reason we cant fully grasp the quantum world is because we didnt evolve in that world.

We're here on a need-to-know basis. There is no machinery in evolution for informing us of the existence of phenomena that do not affect our survival. What is here that we dont know about we dont know about.

The unconscious system of guidance is millions of years old, speech less than a hundred thousand. The brain had no idea any of this was coming. The unconscious must have had to do all sorts of scrambling around to accommodate a system that proved perfectly relentless. Not only it is comparable to a parasitic invasion, it's not comparable to anything else.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

You got good eyes, she said. Yes mam, he said. I always did. Well I guess so, she said. You dont normally start out with bad ones and they get better.

A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own end.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

The road to infinity may well unravel fresh rules as it goes.

One of the things I realized was that the universe had been evolving for countless billions of years

I began to see how the world must become if I were to live in it.

If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted.

Not sure why. But you have to understand what the advent of language was like. The brain had done pretty well without it for quite a few million years. The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation.

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.