Quotes About Evolution

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Next time I will ... From now on I will ... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

That spot on the road was the place where he had ceased to be a boy.

There is robust debate in American society over the extent to which the US lives up to its goals, but no one considers such debate as a threat to America's current existence. The evolution of America from a slave-owning society that limited franchise only to white men of European origin to a diverse, multi-ethnic nation is a result of argument and deliberation.

The third natural law: Growth is the process of changing principles on your Belief Window.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it's not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don't want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

Perhaps in another few thousand years, the aliens who take over our planet will note the quaint and weird sport of Association Football, an ancient forerunner to whatever becomes their modern foot-and-ball game. Perhaps it will be played with the heads of vanquished humans.

Learning is a journal not a destination

Why isn't everybody the way they were at first? I wonder.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

The world came into existence and evolved over billions of years. If conditions hadn't been right for life to occur, we simply wouldn't exist. Our world is a reflection of who we are and how we evolved. The mistake is finding ourselves alive on Earth and assuming we were meant to be here, instead of merely appreciating the fact that we are. We can appreciate our reality without assuming our necessity. T

And Texas. Well, as they say: "everything's bigger in Texas." Including the depth and breath of their stupidity. If, during a drought, your governor appeals to the citizenry to pray for rain, and a mob doesn't show up to physically remove him from office for being too goddamn dumb to govern, you leave yourself open to ridicule. As you do if you try to put creationism on equal footing with evolution in your school textbooks.

For many millennia men faced their enemies; they sat or walked side by side as they hunted game with their friends." So unless you want your words to send him into battle, use evolution to your advantage and have a sex talk with him while taking a walk or drive, or just sitting comfortably next to each other on the couch. Prepare

It seemed to us that we were witnessing a total break in the evolution of mankind, the complete collapse of man as a rational being. Heda Margolius Kovály, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941–1968 (1986)

We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts in the local Extra and the alco station; online banking; self-driving taxis; an automated triage system in the hospital. One by one, the bots came and replaced us.

Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.

Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach.

As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him...

nothing ever vanished, not totally. Instead, things altered shape, substance, meaning.

The city disappears street by street as you enter it.

Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique way; and some of our newer brain components talk to each other via some very ancient structures indeed. Our brains are makeshift structures, opportunistically assembled by Nature over hundreds of millions of years, and in multiple different ecological contexts.

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.