Quotes About Evolution

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Even though cultural changes cannot be measured on a day-to-day basis, changes that accrue over decades must be pursued daily.

Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We are the great meteorite.

Los cuerpos grandes son una ventaja para los luchadores; los genitales grandes lo son para los amantes.

Sergestid shrimp, he suggests, acquired, integrated, and put to work at least four intact genomes. To Williamson the inheritance of these acquired genomes, not random mutations, determines the evolutionary success of these shrimp today.

The universe, the landscape, it is all changing. It has not changed enough-that is a given- but it is changing, and evolution is something to embrace. Racism is alive and well and we still encounter microaggressions on a regular basis, bat at least now we can go home and close the door and enjoy some entertainment, see ourselves on-screen, imagine ourselves as superheroes and goddesses. Before, you got hassled, you went home, and you had nothing. That's the difference

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

Yet when we do manage to create ourselves anew, isn't there always a suspicion that the new identity fits over the old like a second skin, at times itchy or uncomfortably tight, not quite covering the most vulnerable patches?

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before.

Los cambios imperfectos son pasos pequeños de progreso envueltos en gracia… un progreso imperfecto.

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

While we speak, new worlds are sparkling forth--suns are throwing off their nebulae--nebulae are hardening into worlds.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

An adaptive agent is constantly playing a game with its environment. What exactly does that mean? Distilled to the essence, what actually has to happen for game-playing agents to survive and prosper? Two things, Holland decided: prediction and feedback.

It will require the renunciation or sublimation or transformation of our traditional appetites: to outbreed, outconsume, and conquer our rivals, especially our rivals in other tribes. These impulses may once have been adaptive. Indeed, they may even be hard-wired into our brains. But we no longer have the luxury of tolerating them. And

Like it or not, the marketplace isn't stable. The world isn't stable. It's full of evolution, upheaval, and surprise.