Quotes About Evolution

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools!

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

political instrument adapted to the new times

de la necesidad lampedusiana de que todo cambie para que todo siga igual.

she also shed her youthful need to exaggerate, flaunt her wit, and trot out erudition. She still sent poems to mark an event or nudge someone to write, but her poems became less about what happened and more about what she was thinking. Poems sent in letters . . . rose above daily concerns to larger contemplations on nature, faith, and loss. Images of boats, sailors, and the view from shore appeared frequently.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

I'd have to leave the armor behind. But maybe I wouldn't need it anymore.

I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media?

I'd just discarded Plan Actually Not All That Terrible and shifted to Plan Approaching Terrible.

The whole thing had seemed to start out well and then devolve into a disaster almost before he noticed. Not that that's unusual. But

Sometimes endings are just opportunities.

Sometimes, when it feels as if life has veered irrevocably off track, the track shifts in ways we never could have imagined.

Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.

Freud's theoretical differences with Adler and Jung ended in bitterness. The three parted company and each went his own way. At that point, Freud began to use the concept of introversion as a negative, implying a turning inward away from the world, in his writings about narcissism. This shifted the evolution of the concept of introversion away from healthy and toward the unhealthy, a misconception that remains to this day.

Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious.