Quotes About Evolution

De evolutionair psychologen zouden best eens gelijk kunnen hebben. Misschien zijn wij mensen inderdaad te ver doorgeëvolueerd en is de prijs die we betalen voor onze intelligentie, waardoor we de eerste soort zijn die zich volledig bewust is van de kosmos, het vermogen om een heel universum aan duisternis te voelen.

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that is the real life lesson.

That was the remarkable thing about humans—their ability to shape the path of other species, to change their fundamental nature.

Newton dragging me forward until we reached a large stretch of grass. This is what dogs liked to do, I discovered. They liked tout, I had to admit, it worked for them, and for Newton in particular. It was a collective illusion they had chosen to swallow and they were submitting to it wholeheartedly, without any nostalgia for their former wolf selves.

every moment of our life is a . . . kind of turning.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become.

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead. Human brains- in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness- are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the stone age.. Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how we could upgrade our ability to cope with all this change.

He llegado a un planeta donde la forma más inteligente de vida todavía tiene que conducir su propio coche…

Professor Jonathan Rottenberg, an evolutionary psychologist and author of The Depths

Humans don't learn from history

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another.

A collision between an ancient mind and a modern world (evolutionary psychology).

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed in a lifetime, however much we try...

Problemen met de geestelijke gezondheid zijn geen: Massahysterie. Modegril. Bevlieging. Trend bij sterren. Gevolg van toegenomen bewustzijn van geestelijke problematiek. Gemakkelijk gespreksonderwerp. En: geestelijke problemen zijn niet meer wat ze geweest zijn.

We humans might have evolved too far. The prize for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness

When I let go of what I am,' said the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, 'I become what I might be.

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time

Too many memories. Too many ghosts. It was time to be someone else again. I suppose the way I understand my life is as a kind of Russian doll, with different versions inside other versions, each one enclosing the other, whereby the life before isn't seen from the outside but is still there.

The longer you live, the more you realise that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realise their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realise that the thing that defines a human being is being a human.

Everything changes and nothing changes.

inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon)

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological animal.

It's not what

Even these bad experiences are serving a purpose, don't you see?