Quotes About Evolution

know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.' — Albert Einstein

anyone who has worked on an enterprise-scale software project knows that the only thing you can count on is change.

On average, human brains have shrunk some 10 percent in size over the last 20,000 years,

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

Every city began as a campsite

We must start by recognizing that the human mind was not designed for happiness. It was designed by natural selection to facilitate the survival and reproduction of human beings in an environment that existed tens of thousands of years ago. We know this because we know how natural selection works.

What I had done to Jesse, well, that was something else. In a way, it's like I was burying my old self in that pit. The person that I'd been before I'd looked into a man's eyes and shot him dead. The person that I was now, the delicate newborn killer that Jesse made me, needed the slow thoughtless shoveling like an insect still wet from metamorphosis needs time to dry its wings and figure out how to work its brand new form.

The happy times of pristine thinking and open minds, always favorable for beginnings, belonged now to the past, and we knew it.

Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth.

As to the last question, the present situation allows no prediction. One can simply say that there seems to be no objective reason for assuming that hominization has reached an unsurpassable summit.

Natural selection, this all-powerful driving force of biological evolution, has privileged in our genes traits that were immediately favorable to the survival and proliferation of our ancestors, under the conditions that prevailed there and then, with no regard for later consequences. This is intrinsic to the process of natural selection, which sees only the immediate present and does not foresee the future.

We enjoy the unique faculty of being able to act against natural selection. The problem is that, in order to do this, we must actively oppose some of our key genetic traits, surmount our own nature.

Here is where Darwin's ideas encountered the strongest resistance, lasting up to the present day; they implied a lack of purpose in nature.

of all that has been learned is clear and indisputable: all known living organisms are descendants from a single common ancestral form.

Evolution is not a theory, contrary to what is often stated, sometimes even by scientists. Evolution is a fact. It was a theory two centuries ago, when Lamarck and Erasmus Darwin first proposed it, just as heliocentrism was a theory in the days of Copernicus and Galileo. Evolution is no longer a theory, just as heliocentrism is no longer a theory; it is a fact.

L'intelligence humaine, dit Auguste Comte, passe successivement par trois états : L'état théologique ou fictif (êtres divins) ; L'état métaphysique ou abstrait (nature, être) ; L'état scientifique ou positif (observation, empirisme).

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

himself: after the locomotive

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels.

According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls.

Se siente como un payaso de circo que se despierta una mañana y ya no quiere colocarse la nariz de goma roja.

You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then

Maybe all of us could live several lives, giving some things up and gaining others, assembling different versions of contentment.

No, I am Dorothy now.