Quotes About Evolution

She looks at me and smiles in that brisk efficient way. A modern professional smile. the kind of smile that never existed before, say, the telephone.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become. We are what life does to us.

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

Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal.

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

I'm just a slow-emotion replay of somebody I used to be.

Get out of your comfort zone and into your discomfort zone. That's where real change begins.

Keep in mind that your past self does not exist anymore and your present self should realize that.

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes.

simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.

time always erodes advantage.

people are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential—the healthy, the fit, and the powerful.

Words originated, as did the concept of God, with our species.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

There is nothing permanent about being a writer.

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.

Every journey to something is a journey away from something