Quotes About Evolution

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.

As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my words. That's a prophecy.

Darwin proved that not only are humans and all other animals related but also that we together feel pain, share emotions, and possess memory, reason, and imagination. Rather than seeing humans and animals as categorically different, Darwin showed that all animals, including humans, share a continuum of mental and emotional capacities.

I call it Negroland because I still find "Negro" a word of wonders, glorious and terrible. A word for runaway slave posters and civil rights proclamations; for social constructs and street corner flaunts. A tonal-language word whose meaning shifts as setting and context shift, as history twists, lurches, advances, and stagnates. As capital letters appear to enhance its dignity; as other nomenclatures

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

Whenever our ideals are so stagnant that they exclude relationships that might contest our accustomed understanding of the world as well as what we, as individuals, are all about, we ourselves begin to stagnate. We slow down our evolution because we reject the very lovers who have the most to offer to us for the simple reason that they approach life from a stance that has nothing to do with our ideals.

On this view, our identities acquire depth and vitality not from any innate kernel of being, but from a gradual layering of stories. This in turn implies that the most current story that we tell about ourselves is merely the most recent draft of our life.

From an evolutionary perspective, he says, it is safest to err on the side of gullibility. "If you miss the tiger hiding in the grass, you're dead. If you're always seeing tigers, you're running away a lot, but you're not dead.

They were the cream of the crop, but soon they'd be chaff, scythed from swordsmen into skeletons.

Stelele sunt asezate astfel incat sa formeze litere. Alfabete celeste. Scrieri care se schimba pe masura ce se mischa pamantul. Daca te uiti asa la cer, ai senzatia ca e un imens poem schimbator , sau poate o schrisoare , care initial a avut un autor, apoi, dupa ce pamantul s-a mischat, un alt autor a completat-o . Asa ca stau si ma uit la cer, pana cand , intr-o zi , voi putea s-o citesc.

Maleness and femaleness are not biological givens, but rather the results of a long historical process. In each historic epoch maleness and femaleness are differently defined. The definition depends on the principle mode of production in these epochs.

you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something.

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to things already on the decline, without recognising in the humble simplicity of new ideas the germ which shall develop in the future.

Change must be a constant if we are willing to continuously challenge ourselves

FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.

Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.

Nimiedades que servían para recordarle que antaño había existido el mundo exterior y que el presente era mucho más que el ayer y sus papeles amarillentos, su tinta parda y esos mapas que se desintegraban al desplegarlos.

Chain the clay until the mind ripens!

Life provides me both the right and the responsibility of continuously adapting my way of thinking.

Nothing exists forever in one shape or another. You say existence – you say transformation, evolution and regress.

You have to go through successive diluting and crystallization to find your true light.

In the days of Prismatic Color not in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of its originality; with nothing to modify it but the mist that went up, obliqueness was a variation of the perpendicular, plain to see and to account for: it is no longer that; nor did the blue-red-yellow band of incandescence that was color keep its stripe