Quotes About Evolution

La creencia de que existen los animales porque Dios los creó - y que los creó para que podamos responder mejor a nuestras necesidades - es contraria a nuestra comprensión científica de la evolución y, por supuesto, a los registros fósiles, que demuestran la existencia de primates no-humanos y otros animales millones de años antes de que hubiera seres humanos en absoluto».

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

it didn't have a real ending. It just slipped backward when other things happened.

Postmodern" has been defined too many ways, by too many people, to be simply adopted. "Postrealist" is both more inclusive and more direct: having discovered and explored realism, artists have gone on to try any number of other methods, no one of which has clearly replaced realism—which trundles on like the crocodile, unaware that dinosaurs are extinct.

For tens if not hundreds of thousands of years before agriculture, human societies had very effective social norms and institutions for controlling bullies. Why would they suddenly (in a few thousand years) replace them with institutions that gave the upstarts legitimacy?

We may become the first species to spread beyond the limits of the Earth and colonize other planets.

Cultural traits, however, are a more general category than memes, because they also include quantitative (smoothly-varying) characteristics that cannot be easily represented as discrete alternatives: for example, the inclination to trust strangers. (More on that below.)

For example, the populations of both the Roman Empire and Han China grew to 50–60 million people at the peak. This is the point when we surpassed the social insects. During the past two millennia no other animal anywhere has rivaled human societies in size and complexity. ·Ã¢â'¬Â¢· In

Genetic evidence, of individuals across the world, alive now, shows that all non-African people are descended from one small group that must have passed through the Arabian peninsula.

It is now known that the basic mutation rate in DNA is 0.71 per cent per million years. Working back from the present difference between chimpanzee and human DNA, we arrive at a figure of 6.6 million years ago for the chimpanzee–human divergence.5

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but . . . life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. TULI KUPFERBERG

if you continue to do what you've always done, you will continue to have what you've always had.

Everything wears out eventually; nothing is permanent. Change is the one constant of life.

It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people.

It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . .

It horrified him, this thought: the ancient gigantic cannibal near-man flourishing now, ruling the world once more. We spent a million years escaping him, Frink thought, and now he's back. And not merely as the adversary . . . but as the master.

When I was a child I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. Now I must seek in other realms.

The man contains—not the boy—but earlier men

It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people. And

Palmer Eldritch had gone to Prox a man and returned a god.

And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The old aboriginal myth; the truth, there.

If I die,' she murmured, 'maybe I'll be born again when the Rosen Association stamps out its next unit of my subtype.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.