Quotes About Evolution

Adjectives have become verbs: I favorited it. Verbs have become nouns. How many likes do you have? Time is moving at such an accelerated rate that completing sentences now seems baroque.

Would it always matter? Lines from a Delmore Schwartz poem come to mind: "What am I now that I was then? / May memory restore again and again / The smallest color of the smallest

Failed recipes are never the problem. Failing to maintain or re-create them is.

repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.

Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time.

was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

It's not the highs along the way that matter. It's who you become.

All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb "to move," plus the prefix "e-" to connote "move away," suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion. That

humans the prefrontal cortex takes up a larger ratio of the brain's top layer, the neocortex, than in any other species, and has been the site of the major evolutionary changes that make us human. This neural zone, as we will see, holds the seeds of awakening to enduring well-being, but it is also entwined with emotional suffering. We can envision wonderful possibilities, and we also can be disturbed by worrisome

The fact that the thinking brain grew from the emotional reveals much about the relationship of thought to feeling; there was an emotional brain long before there was a rational one.

All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb "to move," plus the prefix "e-" to connote "move away," suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion.

The slow, deliberate forces of evolution that have shaped our emotions have done their work over the course of a million years; the last 10,000 years, despite having witnessed the rapid rise of human civilization and the explosion of the human population from five million to five billion, have left little imprint on our biological templates for emotional life.

change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it.

This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too... This happens everyday. Everyday this happens and scarcely anybody cares.

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

Não sou apenas uma coisa, mas também uma maneira de ser – uma das muitas maneiras –, e saber os caminhos que percorri e os que me restam vai me ajudar a entender o que estou me tornando.

had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's

I am not only a thing, but also a way of being-one of many ways- and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

Você não pode construir um novo edifício em uma área até destruir o que existia antes, e o antigo Charlie não pode ser destruído. Ele existe.

I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.

You can't put up a building on a site until you destroy the old one, and the old Charlie can't be destroyed.