Quotes About Evolution

I never lose, I either win or learn

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

Niente come tornare in un luogo rimasto immutato ci fa scoprire quanto siamo cambiati...

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

And nothing would ever happen if we always stayed the same ["The Sweetness"].

You imagined yourself into your present state. If you don't like it, you must imagine yourself out of it and into another. It is all a matter of movement.

By this law—first conceiving, then becoming that conceived—all things evolve out of No-thing; and without this sequence there is not anything made that is made.

There must be someone in this room who will so completely transform himself in this world that his close immediate circle of friends will not recognize him.

No es el mundo - eso cambia automáticamente- si yo, en una pequeña forma, cambio dentro de mí.

Just as the moth in his desire to know the flame was willing to destroy himself, so must you in becoming a new person be willing to die to your present self.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

we shall quickly find ourselves about as important to the algorithms as animals currently are to us.

You never step into the same river twice,

Bit by bit, we become people we don't want to be,

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The arc of our evolutionary history is long. But it bends towards goodness

A dead host cannot easily spread the germ to others, so causing milder illness is "better" for the pathogen from a Darwinian point of view. People who are very sick stay home in bed or die, and those who are only mildly sick continue with their lives, preferentially spreading milder strains of the pathogen.

Genes do amazing things inside our bodies, but even more amazing to me is what they do outside of them. Genes affect not only the structure and function of our bodies; not only the structure and function of our minds and, hence, our behaviors; but also the structure and function of our societies.

the technology existed.

The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.

Our intellectual maturation as individuals can be traced through the way we draw pictures, or maps, of our surroundings. We begin with primitive, literal renderings of the features of the land we see around us, and we advance to ever more accurate, and more abstract, representations of geographic and topographic space. We progress, in other words, from drawing what we see to drawing what we know.