Quotes About Evolution

Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau

Your brain has three layers that evolved over millions of years: a primitive reptile layer, a more evolved mammal layer, and a final primate layer. They all interconnect, but in effect they often act like three different brains—and they're often at war with each other.

the past is only the future with the lights on.

I suspect alligators never get arm-barred; dinosaurs where probably safe from the submission as well, at least the T-rex.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is the natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is a part of evolution.

The technology never reverses itself. It creates new technology to confront new sets of problems.

Le api originariamente si sono evolute dalle vespe circa 125 milioni di anni fa, smettendo di essere predatrici per diventare cercatrici di nettare e di polline.

Aristotele credeva che la regina non fosse una femmina ma un maschio, e dunque un re, e che le operaie si sviluppassero a partire da una sostanza progenitrice che gli adulti raccoglievano dai fiori e non da uova deposte dalla regina.

The party did not bother to even produce a new platform, for the first time since 1856.

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

A new world With five degrees of global warming, an entirely new planet is coming into being-one largely unrecognisable from the Earth we know today. The

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

You don't actually get over things… you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology.

A zoologist from another universe, where we can suppose the two laws do not apply, might justifiably classify most earthly fauna as subspecies of worm. We are superstructures built on and around our alimentary canal — on and around the worm that we once were.

Running, in other words, removed an important constraint on our development as a species.

A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.

Every novel begins with one sentence. Then comes another. And another.

A Brief History of the Universe: Billions of days ago, atoms began joining together to form stars and planets. On these planets, cells came together to form plants, animals, and people, and then people started gathering to form civilizations. And do you know why all these atoms, cells, and people came together? Because nothing wants to be alone! The invisible force which controls the universe and sets all things in motion? It's called "loneliness!