Quotes About Evolution

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

There is always room for improvement; you can make something better and better, but it will never be perfect.

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

Cada estação da vida é uma edição, que corrige a anterior, e que será corrigida também, até a edição definitiva, que o editor dá de graça aos vermes.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Instead, we prepare for the next jump, then the one after, until after a lifetime of motion is past, we are startled, at least a little, by where we are and by what we have become.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not the ever, infinitely, unbearably unchanging yesterday. She

I also know two steps forward and one step back is the rule, not the exception, as people work on change.

You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

Transformation touched only bodies, not minds.

In the old days I would have rushed forth with a brimming cup of answers, to give him all he wanted. But I was not the same as I had been.

Everybody grows up by leaps, and not by a steady climb like a mountaineer.

There are middle-aged children who spend a part of every day thinking of their college or their war, but the ones who grow up to be men do not have this plaintive need for a flavor of past importance

He was one of the grand old men until the churches and the congregations got wind that he was an infidel and believed in Darwin. Luther Burbank had never a thought of evil, selecting improved hybrids for America those sunny years in Santa Rosa. But he brushed down a wasp's nest that time; he wouldn't give up Darwin and Natural Selection and they stung him and he died puzzled.

admire the United States not for what we were but for what we might become. Self-governing democracy was not an established creed, but a program for growth.

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.

We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.