Quotes About Evolution

When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

And don't forget last year's electrodes, stuck to my leg, the centuries of science reviving one blue foot. Years from now I'll be walking around on plastic legs with a battery-powered heart and silicon eyes, eating imported apricots and flash-frozen chicken hormones. I'll think, again: In an Ice Age cave I'd be dead.

The only fresh meat is the future.

Eventually, money will optimize itself and everything around it.

Genes rule the world.

Natural intelligence will always be one step ahead of artificial intelligence on a random walk.

Scaling Kardashev is any civilization's primary function.

The UUe will cannibalize all other economic systems.

It's harder starting over, than never to have changed

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

The years that had passed had displayed vividly before our eyes the fickleness of human attitudes.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Language is alive, and you can't put it in the freezer. But

When Harriet was growing up, women were trying to immolate gender stereotypes. These days, you preserved the stereotype, the better not to correspond to it.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Death is the force that will create your new life. It is a mechanism of transformation. Welcome it.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Raimon was amused to see that the countess Carenza grew more beautiful by the day: her expression has softened and the pouches under her eyes had disappeared. She carried herself confidently, secure in the knowledge that she was fascinating to one pair of eyes at least.