Quotes About Evolution

E. O. Wilson has summarized it in his book The Social Conquest of Earth, we exist with a bizarre combination of "Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

expecting to find good twenty-first-century economic answers in a constitution that dates back to 1789 is unrealistic. The Founding Fathers were clever, to be sure, but the cleverest thing they realized is that Thomas Jefferson's famous aphorism that "the earth belongs to the living" means laws from a premodern age should not blindly bind us today.

Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorways, Don't block up the halls…For the times they are a changin'.

The article...It's theme was that computers are the first technological invention in history that effect every aspect of human life, from psychological to entertainment to intelligence to material comfort to evil, and that, because of this, humans and machines will continue to grow closer together. (Article 'Life In The Blue Nowhere') From The Blue Nowhere.

Change cannot be hit-or-miss. It requires constant practice.

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel has already changed past understanding.

But in 1922 it was still a new thing to be a machine.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

Don't you think it would have been easier just to stay the way you were?" I lifted my face and looked into my mother's eyes. And I told her: "This is the way I was."   You

Antes era possível, em geral, dizer a nacionalidade da pessoa pela cara. A imigração acabou com isso. Depois ainda dava para descobrir a nacionalidade pelos sapatos. A globalização acabou com isso.

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since.

Little by little he'd change; he'd get older; everything he felt now would fade into memory and then into nothing.

Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913.

Lobsters are classified in the phylum Arthropoda, same as insects. They're bugs. And bugs are only lobsters that have learned to fly.

The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.

Everyday I feel more and more like a full-fledged adult. Even though it was (metaphorically) only yesterday I was sloshing in the door at four a.m. after Dollar Beer Night, I find myself with a mortgage, four types of insurance, and a non-laundry-quarter-based retirement fund.

Today, we're a beeper generation in a smartphone world.

photo developers everywhere are likely the reason my entire generation didn't devolve into total chaos.

1970s, only one in ten women was childfree; today the number is one in five.169 Yet when I mention my choice, I've had moms look at me like I'm defective, or a unicorn, or a defective unicorn. Keep your pity; I don't need it.