Quotes About Evolution

who knew that humanity would one day reach childhood's end, who believed intellect could triumph over superstition and ignorance, and who dared to dream.

We grow, we change, we labor to maturity, to what little wisdom we might ever acquire, but always in the mirror is who we were as well as who we are, a harking back and, yet again, a quiet reckoning.

Ray Kurzweil

He no longer has any doubt that he will pass along what the billions—trillions!—of archaea have installed within him.

abiogenesis

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perhaps a sea again, or a jungle, because all things pass.

Sarah seems to be Sarah now, but what will she be two hours from now

Singularity

Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction

it's likely that Francesca isn't even human anymore

didn't come for a loan," Mitch assured him. "In every species of animal, the primary obligation of parents is to teach self-sufficiency to their offspring. The prey must learn evasion, and the predator must learn to hunt.

We Westerners grew up having our most poignant feelings invoked by the I-IV-V chord progression that runs from Bach to pop.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

It is the greatest mistake," he said, "to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. We think that if a man is called Ivan he is always Ivan. Nothing of the kind. Now he is Ivan, in another minute he is Peter, and a minute later he is Nicholas, Sergius, Matthew, Simon. And all of you think he is Ivan.

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming.

The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don't repeat them.

She kept thinking about their meal at Zorba's. The recipes were the same as they'd been years ago, but the experience wasn't.

Men have a hard time just dealing with a simple cold. If God had left procreation up to the male of the species, humanity would've died out with Adam.

A labor-saving device doesn't just provide a substitute for some isolated component of a job or other activity. It alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part.

As soon as you notice your first wrinkle and your first white hair, sigh with ease. You are well on your way to becoming who you always wanted to be." VÉRONIQUE VIENNE French journalist Christophe, who's had many amorous experiences on both sides of the Atlantic, sums it up this way: "French women are more comfortable being naked than American women.

Sometimes you simply do the things you do, and it doesn't necessarily help to pick on the old you by proclaiming how smart the new you is. - The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

As women are altering their traditional role expressions, men are developing new responses to the transformed women. Old patterns are no longer acceptable, and new sets of expectations and roles are now required of them.

All I'd done in better than two decades was tread forward until I reached the limit of certain assumptions, and stepped off.