Quotes About Evolution

But the older you get, the more you realize that, yes, there are all these things that link you to the past, and you're using the same words and singing the same songs that have always been there for you, but each time, things have shifted, and you have to deal with that shift. Because

Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave.

Mrs. Basil E.

I go from chords to cords, amped to amps.

It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.

Then must we abandon our accustomed notion of a woman's kindness, and forge a new one.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259

Tout grandit, m'a-t-il dit un jour, sauf les catastrophes. Elles sont énormes quand elles naissent; ensuite, elles rapetissent un peu plus chaque jour.

Nuestra cultura es una tercera piel (la segunda es el entorno ecológico). La naturaleza humana es cultural. La cultura no es un aditamiento artificial del hombre, como un cierto evolucionismo sutilmente presupone. El hombre es un animal cultural, la cultura es natural y las culturas son distintas, aunque no incomunicables.

The only way back is the way forward.

Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon.

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

Regardless of what our Creator intended us to be, what we have become is what we are.

Were you always such a snake, the child asked, or did you grow into what you are?

We are what we are, he thought, and maybe the only time we can change what we are is when life throws us such a surprise that it's like hitting a plate-glass window with a baseball bat, shattering the grip of the past.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

mankind was, in reality, the most ruthless, dangerous, unforgiving species on earth.

Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.

none of it is quite what it was this time the previous day.

seemed that books might fade entirely from fashion and that vast fields of information, digitized but rarely accessed, would soon become graveyards of once essential knowledge.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. —H. G. Wells

anachronistic

until it isn't.

transhumanism