Quotes About Evolution

History, which, we are told, is mainly the record of the crimes, follies, and miseries of mankind

The moral philosophy and spiritual conceptions of men and nations should hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions…No material progress, even though it takes shapes we cannot now conceive, or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his soul.

Cada serie de circunstancias crea otras nuevas.

Success is never final.

Past experience carries with its advantages the drawback that things never happen the same way again.

if it was not passed, the docks, which already have become obsolescent, will have to be allowed to obsolesce into obsoleteness.

As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism.

Me parece que solo será a partir de la próxima generación cuando caminar se convierta en algo vanguardista.

Eso de fotogénico tiene poco, y requiere años. Todas las cámaras se han ido ya a otra guerra.

We leven langer, maar minder nauwkeurig en in kortere zinnen.

I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out

This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?

Marshall McLuhan predicted books would become art objects at some point. He was right.

Christ, I'm afraid of dogs. And I'm talking about all dogs, including Yorkies. You'll hate me, but I don't like pets. Naturally, I don't like being bitten and I hate being shed on, licked, or barked at. On the evolutionary scale, I always regarded all animals as failed humans. I also don't like being sung to by a canary or when fish in a tank look back at me.

The major difference between human and other life forms on our planet is our ability to reason and to question. For just a moment, try to deliberately free your mind from what you have been told about religion, evolution, birth, death, God, and other concepts you have about why you're here on earth.

Nunca nadie me ha sobornado tanto como la rutina. Todo los días ensayas la misma obra, un día te la aprendes y ahí poco a poquito vas torciéndola a tu gusto. O te la van torciendo a su antojo, que es lo que pasa cuando te la crees.

I think hunting used to be important for human survival. Thats no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made up of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.

The open source community is an example of the evolutionary processes we have been describing. The rules of the community establish a framework for competition, but do not specify or plan that software will result.

Although Darwin's theory of evolution discusses how the fitter offspring tend to survive, the reality is that whether or not an offspring will survive is mostly a function of chance due to the many possible wrong choices that exist for each right choice. Higher complexity organisms have more behavioral options, which in turn enables them to make more right choices.

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood!

It is true that those we meet can change us

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