Quotes About Evolution

You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.'—Timothy Leary.

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

empiezas a hacer esto consigues redefinirte como persona capaz de influir en el mundo.

I Seem to Be a Verb, de Buckminster Fuller. Cuarenta

Failure is highly underrated.

For every major event in my life—everything from races to job changes to breakups—I assign a song.

Steven Pinker: anything. He's one of the clearest thinkers and communicators of our time. Among many other things, he convinced me that I could never understand myself without understanding how humans evolved.

In the last five years, what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life?

Me obligo a mí mismo a dejar de comparar lo que aprendo con el pasado. Si sólo te fijas en los patrones del pasado, no llegarás lejos.»

Changing on the Job.

and forward thinker. Genome, The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist—they're all great.

The future is already here—it is just unevenly distributed.

impersonal, slowly swelling movement

Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.

We know so little of the universe, yet the universe knows all about us and all humans that have lived on Earth. It has seen the birth of life and the evolution of Man. It has witnessed our history and will probably view our demise, like a hidden camera that has filmed our lives.

if, for each t, we write u(t) for the function from to that takes x to u(x, t), then it describes how the function u(t) "evolves" over time. The Cauchy problem for an evolution equation is the problem of determining this evolution from knowledge of its initial value u(0).

You can be anyone this time around.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Out of one's change of consciousness comes change in the world.

Very few people wake up one morning and decide to change their theology. Changes in a person's belief system are seldom that self-conscious.

Nothing is more obvious than the need for change. Nothing is less obvious than what needs to change and how that change happens.

History does not repeat, but it does instruct

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.