Quotes About Evolution

Feminists have often claimed a moral equivalence for sexual and racial prejudice. There are certain affinities and one or two of these affinities are mildly and paradoxically encouraging. Sexism is like racism: we all feel such impulses. Our parents feel them more strongly than we feel them; our children, we trust, will feel them less strongly than we feel them. People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

that the human race would become extinct if every member of it could see themselves having sex?

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.

parts of classic MVC don't really make sense for rich clients these days.

In almost all cases, I'm opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little bursts.

Architectural refactoring is hard, and we're still ignorant of its full costs, but it isn't impossible. Here the best

It's hard to figure out what the right amount of hiding is. Fortunately, with Hide Delegate (189) and Remove Middle Man, it doesn't matter so much. I can adjust my code as time goes on. As the system changes, the basis for how much I hide also changes. A good encapsulation six months ago may be awkward now. Refactoring means I never have to say I'm sorry—I just fix it.

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.

Evolution is individual — devolution is collective.

The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.

E. O. Wilson, one of the world's most distinguished ecologists, certainly its most eloquent: 'At the heart of the environmentalist world view is the conviction that human physical and spiritual health depends on the planet Earth … Natural ecosystems – forests, coral reefs, marine blue waters – maintain the world as we would wish it to be maintained. Our body and our mind evolved to live in this particular planetary environment and no other.

I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence beyond human capacity – beyond as much as we are beyond a chimpanzee

Complex biospheres like the Earth's could be rare because of some bottleneck, some key stage in evolution, that is hard to transit. Perhaps it is the transition to multicellular life. (The fact that simple life on Earth seems to have emerged quite quickly, whereas even the most basic multicellular organisms took nearly three billion years, suggests that there may be severe barriers to the emergence of any complex life.)

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

Elle n'avait pas de réponse, mais, même si c'était un peu effrayant, ce n'était pas grave. Les réponses sont un frein à la croissance et à la connaissance.

As you grow older, you change.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

So, as you may be sensing, I wasn't quite cooked.

A paradigm shift can be a sign of progress and evolution, a testament to our capacity for innovation and adaptation.