Quotes About Evolution

Your body knows in all its parts, when 'used to' starts, when nothing will ever be the way it's been. Your body knows first. Takes your 'you' weeks to catch up.

A hundred years ago behavior was explained by one shelf of books, now it's explained by a different shelf of books, and in a hundred years they'll explain it differently again.

life's business in a fundamentally different way—using a molecule other than DNA or RNA as genetic material, for example, or a different set of amino acids to build proteins.

Note to creationists: life and evolution are as inseparable as Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.)

you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

transmogrification

Meanwhile, new ideas crept like a damp stain into the very fabric of Tang culture, casting a shadow across the world of the old aristocratic clans that had survived.

increasingly short periods of time—first 1,200 years, then less than 600 years, then less than 125 years, then 50 years.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them....

Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'huy? How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know where it will end.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything.

Si l'homme rit, s'il est le seul, parmi le règne animal, à exhiber cette atroce déformation faciale, c'est également qu'il est le seul, dépassant l'égoïsme de la nature animale, à avoir atteint le stade infernal et suprême de la cruauté.

As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control of its evolution; when that happened sexuality would be seen for what it really was: a useless, dangerous, and regressive function.