Quotes About Evolution

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.

What is good is always being destroyed

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

It's like the rules switch for a beach and everyone suddenly knows how to behave like an advanced human

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

we rush madly forward toward we know not what and call ourselves "progressive". It

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

We also face psychological obstacles in responding to climate change. Evolution built us to respond to rapid movements of middle-sized objects, not to the slow buildup of insensible gases in the atmosphere. Most of us respond dramatically to what we sense, not to what we think. As a result, even those of us who are concerned about climate change find it difficult to feel its urgency and to act decisively.

there is no question that there is an enormous range of technologies that are on the shelf. The problem is the gap between technological development, and diffusion and adoption. It is sobering to be reminded that the first hybrid was invented in 1901.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past." —Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher

We are friends, my dogs and I, in spite of evolutionary discontinuity and because of evolutionary continuity.

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

Decay is inherent in all things.

history has no overall direction or purpose

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

Åžöyle oluyor.

Children still, on the verge of not being children any more.

The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

Maybe I was a bad kid. But I was also slowly turning to stone.