Quotes About Evolution

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.

He is the same, but everything is different.

In a vivid insight, a flash of black lightning, he saw that all life was parallel: that evolution was not vertical, ascending to a perfection, but horizontal. Time was a great fallacy; existence was without history, was always now, was always this being caught in the same fiendish machine. All those painted screens erected by man to shut out reality - history, religion, duty, social position, all were illusions, mere opium fantasies. - The French Lieutenant's Woman

Ti-ai pus vreodata intrebarea de ce evolutia speciilor si-a dat atata osteneala sa ajunga la aceasta infinita diversitate de forme si dimensiuni? Asta ti se pare tot o inutila punere in scena?

Yapt???n?z ÅŸeyler, daha önce yapt?klar?n?z? belirsizleÅŸtirir.

CunoaÈ™terea nu m-a f?cut fericit, m-a cuprins o furie surd? împotriva legii evoluÈ›iei, care acceptase ca în una È™i aceeaÈ™i minte s? existe atâta sensibilitate È™i atâta stâng?cie totodat?. În mine se revolta propriul eu ca un iepure în capcan?.

Charles called himself a Darwinist, and yet he had not really understood Darwin. But then, nor had Darwin himself.

Her ÅŸeyi olduÄŸu gibi kabullenmek gerekiyordu. Ama evrim yasalar?n?n bu kadar büyük bir duyars?zl?kla, bu kadar büyük bir sakarl???n ayn? zihinde var olmas?na izin verdiÄŸi düÅŸüncesi beni ç?lg?na çeviriyordu. Egom kapana k?st?r?lm?? bir tavÅŸan gibi c?yak c?yak ba??r?yordu.

hay tiempos que el lenguaje humano aún debe inventar.

Evolution had turned man into a sharply isolating creature, seeing the world not only anthropocentrically but singly, mirroring the way we like to think of our private selves.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

Quite often, when one partner makes a positive change the other will also change. This predictable coincidence is one of those magical things about life.

Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error -the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.

Darwin's theory shows the truth of naturalism: we are animals like any other; our fate and that of the rest of life on Earth are the same. Yet, in an irony all the more exquisite because no one has noticed it, Darwinism is now the central prop of the humanist faith that we can transcend our animal natures and rule the Eart.

The important point here is that to enrich our relationships we need to make little changes. Big changes generally require some suppression of who we truly are.

In a competition for mates a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. The same is true in politics and and other contexts

There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution

You cannot, nor should you ever try to, change your partner. That is his or her job. Your job is to change the ways you communicate, react, and respond to your partner

The common sense of one generation was always a new discovery to previous generations.

action, and there are also structures so distinct from the rest of the cell 'jelly', like cells within cells, that the best explanation of their presence is that that is indeed what they are. These semi-autonomous 'cells within the cell' are called organelles. As we saw in Chapter Four, Lynn Margulis has explained how the ancestors of the organelles used to be separate, bacteria

They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can't. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won't change, and she does.

Plans—nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly.

Humans are mammals and their red blood cells are similar in that they do not have nuclei. Reptiles and birds have nucleated red blood cells, we do