Quotes About Evolution

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even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

My genes done gone and tricked my brain By making fucking feel so great That's how the little creeps attain Their plan to fuckin' replicate But brain's got tricks itself, you see To get the bang but not the bite I got this here vasectomy My genes can fuck themselves tonight. - The R-Selectors, Trunclade

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

Truth had never been a priority. If believing a lie kept the genes proliferating, the system would believe that lie with all its heart.

Technology implies belligerence.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

When you compare the changing room to last season, there is a massive, massive difference. The changing room now is full of men.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.

The Deconditioning Process is one which never ends, for even as we shake ourselves loose from limiting behaviors and beliefs, so too, we tend to form new ones.

wrong mistakes.

to organic. Well… that wasn't going to happen.

and when our bodies rise again, they will be wildflowers, then rabbits, then wolves singing a perfect love to the beautiful, meaningless moon.

Science asymptotically approaches reality.

That is normal human behavior. We tend to go with strong hunches. System 1 follows a primitive psycho-logic: if it feels true, it is. In the Paleolithic world in which our brains evolved, that's not a bad way of making decisions. Gathering

glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) liberalized

Plans are merely a platform for change. Israeli Defense Forces.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

A life well lived is the best antidote to that fatal truth. Be active, not a passive worrywart. Find magic in the moment, joy in making someone smile. Listen to a lover's sigh; look into the dancing eyes of a child you made feel special. Most of all, marvel at the wonder that eons of evolutionary time and all your unique experiences have joined to comprise the symphony that is YOU.

A twisted sort of shyness has evolved as the digital self becomes less and less like the real-life operator. The ego is the playmaker; the character is the observer, as the external world shrinks to the size of Billy's bedroom.

The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything.