Quotes About Evolution

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Everything comes from experience; yet not from actual experience, reiterated by each individual with each generation, but instead from experience accumulated by the entire ancestry of the species in the course of its evolution.

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe. Now, this is basically incompatible with virtually all the religious or metaphysical systems whatever, all of which try to show that there is some sort of harmony between man and the universe and that man is a product—predictable if not indispensable—of the evolution of the universe.

Muchos espíritus distinguidos, aún hoy, parecen no poder aceptar ni incluso comprender que de una fuente de ruido la selección haya podido, ella sola, sacar todas las músicas de la biosfera.

Todo ser vivo es también un fósil. Lleva en sí, y hasta en la estructura microscópica de sus proteínas, las huellas, si no los estigmas, de su ascendencia. Esto es más cierto en el Hombre que en cualquier otra especie animal, en razón de la dualidad, física e «ideal», de la evolución de la que es heredero.

Reac?iile noastre sunt determinate mai mult de interpretarea pe care o d?m evenimentelor decât de evenimentele în sine. S? vezi prin ochii altuia (privirea unei ter?e persoane este uneori util?), s? accep?i s?-?i repui în discu?ie convingerile este singura posibilitate de a avansa, de a evolua, de a te maturiza, de a cre?te.

Every seed goes through the tremendous struggle of losing itself – losing its safety and integrity and becoming vulnerable to every outside force that's around. But without that vulnerability, without the breaking, without the shedding of the shell, life won't sprout.

A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process, nothing is fixed.

Esto es como el circo Romano, como la inauguración del Anfiteatro Flavio por el emperador Tito. Mas de dos mil años de diferencia y nada ha cambiado.

I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

I had one more thing to add to my expanding world.

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations [Article : "In the Details . . . What?"]

Bacteria evolved mechanisms that could inactivate, block, or excrete various antibiotics. Moreover, bacteria transferred genetic determinants for these resistances between species and aggregated different resistances together on transmissible DNA elements known as resistance plasmids or R factors.

The idea is that diseases like cancer and diabetes started around the same time that we began growing our own foods.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I feel as I were disintegrating and "growing up", whatever that means, simultaneously.

Twenty-six thousand feet up the cols of Everest, a long way beyond the staying power of plants, pale spiders have been found, who subsist on nothing more discernible than air. Apparently they also reproduce their kind. What else they do with their time and, for that matter, why, no one has yet made out.

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

once in a meeting about our written reports. "When you guys finish your shows, take that file and throw it out. Do not keep one piece of paper, because next year when we have to come back and do this again, it will force you to rethink everything you did, not just pick up from where you left off and implement the same procedures and production elements that you did last year.