Quotes About Evolution

Yes, she would explain to neither of them that everything was slowly changing... That she had put away her smile like one who has finally turned off the lamp and decided to go to bed. Now no living thing was allowed in her inner self, merging into it. The way she related to people was becoming increasingly different to the way she related to herself.

I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And even after you step on them they come apart slowly and keep on walking all the while. Even when they freeze, after they thaw out they keep on going. For three hundred and fifty million years, they have reproduced with no change. When the world was practically naked, they walked slowly across it.

Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog.

while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Elle a toujours écrit en épurant de plus en plus : chaque fois un peu moins de mots et un peu plus de silences, un peu moins de cantabile et un peu plus de moderato. Elle a toujours vécu en ajoutant sans retrancher.»

Ya no se trataba de volver de un viaje concluido al lugar de partida, tenía la sensación de que no volvería nunca a ser quien había sido.

The state of emergency is also always the state of emergence

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.

If you're behind the curve, you're on the crest of a wave.

Traditions have got a lot to answer for. They lose their meaning and we cling on to something that does more harm than good.

The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.

Learning is a continuous process. There is no growth without learning.

The present world is a changing environment and people can only adapt or neglect the pressures of time.