Quotes About Evolution

Um dos sentidos evidentes de nossos tempos é que o sentido do presente é procurado muito mais no futuro do que no passado.

A promiscuous man would need to have sex with more than 130 women just to have 90 percent odds of outdoing the one baby a monogamous man might expect to father in a year.

Learning is never failure.

You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

The past is a foreign country -- and increasingly I don't want to visit.

This much scientists agree on: Five times in the history of the earth, most life has winked out. Five times, one species after the next disappeared, the chain collapsed, grazers died as the plants they depended on were lost, and predators disappeared shortly after, life on earth reaching as close to zero as you'd ever care to get.

A trademark of something that works well, the cat body has hardly changed since its inception. Like with today's cats, their digestive systems could handle only flesh. The lesson of the cat is that if you are to become a full-fledged carnivore, you have to commit everything to it. A house cat fed vegetarian food will shrivel and die.

i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.

The skin of Herbert's chest and arms and head turned opaque as a nearly colorless essence, smoke or mist or fog, rose off his body.

They say a man can change his personality—the basic essence of who or what he is—by five percent. Five percent: the total change any one of us is capable of.

Betamax is the wave of the future

It had struck me that most people's lives unfolded through a constant process of recalibration. Things happen, often unexpectedly, and a person's life adjusts to account for them.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Sometimes it was like that, I suppose; some people become so important in your life that they're almost like a trademark, but then they're gone. Sometimes they might reappear, but they're nothing at all like what you've assembled in your mind since their departure; sometimes you can't even stand them anymore, because they break up the legend and nothing dies harder than a good, personal legend.

You can now say the word shit on television." "Even broadcast television?" "There is no more broadcast television, Boss." I thought about the TV set back at my cabin that I hadn't turned on in a long while. "I wondered why mine had stopped working.

Adversity may initially appear as the enemy, however somewhere along it's journey it will reappear in the form of a friend, bringing about positive change

So how come people fall out of love, do you think? I don't know. It's true that people change. Or people don't change when you hoped they might. Or they find somebody else they like better. Or people just grow apart, they lose interest in each other's lives. Maybe they realise they made a mistake. There are lots of reasons.

Charles Darwin's early academic record was so poor that his father predicted he would be a disgrace to his family.

In the 1920s, a tech engineer's "half-life of knowledge" was thirty-five years; in the 1960s, it was a decade; and today it is five years at most.

Neoteny is a term coined by evolutionary biologists to explain the human capacity to perpetuate juvenile characteristics, such as curiosity, play, and imagination, into adult life.

The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.

A child learns by growing, an adult learns to grow.