Quotes About Evolution

A mission doesn't have to be lifelong. Many are temporary and usually prepare us, in ways unknown to us at the time, for some future mission.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. —ALBERT EINSTEIN I

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Maybe that's just what moving on is, not getting over, but skipping over. And

Sonya's a real person, like your Mother. Thirty years ago, that was your Mother's biggest flaw in my eyes, and now that's the thing I love most about Sonya. It's funny how things end, isn't it?

Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Second, they say it has been discovered before. Last, they say they always believed it.

On the trees were no longer only leaves but brown fruits, on the bushes no longer blossoms but clusters of red berries. And the wind had a rough manliness in its voice - the tone not of a lover but of a husband.

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself. —Friedrich Nietzsche

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Life, she thought, was like that sometimes; for years, things were a certain way, and then in an instant, almost without conscious thought, they weren't that way any longer, as if all the hidden pressure of their having been the way they'd been had found release through a necessary valve.

Werewolf Root is for changes that are complete, so that one cannot go back to the old life one was living.

Sober, a philosopher of science, has shown through convincing models that isolated, selfless individuals who come into contact with only selfish and violent individuals will be taken advantage of and tend to disappear quickly.4 Conversely, when such altruists group together and cooperate with one another, they have a definite evolutionary advantage over the selfish people, who also fight among themselves and therefore may slowly disappear from the population.

Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your habitual way of being.

Nature has evolved to be the inventor of complexity. Just as a jazz musician embroiders around a theme, thus improvising new melodic phrases according to his inspiration and the public's reactions, nature plays spontaneously with the physical laws that were fixed at the start of the universe. It uses them to create novelty9

neuroplasticity', a term which takes into account the fact that the brain evolves continuously in relation to our experience, and that a particular training, such as learning a musical instrument or a sport, can bring about a profound change.

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

In every period, and in every country, there have always been two parties: the reactionary and the progressive.

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

You shall not find, in nature's immense crucible, a single living being that has shown a like suppleness, a similar abundance of forms, the same prodigious faculty of accommodation to our wishes. This is because, in the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

The idea of tradition is this double movement: being other in order to be the same, forgetting in order to conserve, producing in order to receive, looking ahead in order to receive the entire force of the past.