Quotes About Evolution

You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new

I am what I am, and what I am is what I am. I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am. If I have a will to be, I will to be no more than what I was. If I was what I am willed to be, yet they ever will be wondering what I am or what I ever was. I want to change the Wall, and make my will.

Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.

In 1960, with the advent of potassium-argon dating, anthropologists discovered that the age of the Zinjanthropus site at Olduvai Gorge was more than 1.75 million years older than they thought. It threw off the entire history of the Pleistocene age.

Religion may be the most ephemeral eddy of them all. It persists with a name and a building where the faithful congregate over generations. The faith the first generation embraced might be unrecognizable to the last, even though the building and the name have remained unchanged.

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

Meghan has outgrown you, just as she outgrew me.

my name is recognised, my star meter is rising, my life is changing.

It's important to remember that every good story has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it's up to us to figure out how to get from one to the other.

we change the course of our actions according to what we learn is good for our survival. If

The science of human nature… finds itself today in the position that chemistry occupied in the days of alchemy." Alfred Adler

But first we have to accept the idea that thinking long and hard about something does not always deliver us better results, and that the brain actually evolved to make us think on our feet.

Ilya Prigogine, chemist; John

We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species. New

Change Dynasty

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

True development does not respect comfort.

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

Think about cuisine: Most probably, your great-grandparents never encountered a market offering Chinese dumplings, Bombay lime pickle, lemongrass curry, tiramisu, and gnocci, but these foods are now an integral part of the modern world.

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?