Quotes About Evolution

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

Stay close, do what I say and make as many mistakes as you want – just never the same one twice.

Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

All the great unanswered questions of the world will be answered. Who are we? What are we here for? Where will we end up? And most important of all: Can mankind actually get any stupider?

People don't change just because you know more about them.

She used to only play Help Yourself, but now she only plays Delilah. Is that normal? It's not unusual.

What's with the iMagic name change?' I said without preamble. 'Industrial Magic was a bit of a mouthful,' he explained. 'Besides, putting an iin front of anything makes it more hip and current.

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...

Remember, Thursday, that scientific thought – indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else – is just like the fashions that we wear – only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins. 'Right.

cats aren't really friendly; they're just cozying up to the dominant life form as a hedge against extinction.

pero no existe la democracia perfecta, porque lo que define a una democracia de verdad es su carácter flexible, abierto, maleable –es decir, permanentemente mejorable–, de forma que la única democracia perfecta es la que es perfectible hasta el infinito.

los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede;

quizá porque en aquel momento tuve por primera vez la intuición falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya acontecido es irreversible

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

marketing has a beginning and a middle but not an ending.

It's not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, that survive; it's the one most responsive to change. —Charles Darwin

Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.

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There can be no true definition of normal because life is ever-changing.