Quotes About Evolution

natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

history of mankind consists in a departure from a condition of undifferentiated primal unity with himself and with nature,

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

SF] was a commercial genre born in the old adventure pulp magazines of the first third of the twentieth century, aimed primarily at adolescent males, which, over the decades, in fits and starts, evolved into an intellectually credible, scientifically germane, transcendental literature without losing its popular base. Of what other literature in the history of the western world can this truly be said?

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

Change is a difficult task, a dying, a dreaming, an awakening.

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of quaint, and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

Apparently, we go forward.

The process of history is combustion.

Aparent mergem înainte

O zamanlar daha Olric yoktu, daha o zamanlar Turgut'un kafas? bu kadar kar???k de?ildi.

Bugün annem dayanamad?; ne yazd???m? sordu .Ona nas?l anlatsam? Bütün hayat?m? birlikte geçirdi?im ve beni gerçekten seven bu insana hiç bi ?ey anlatamamak ne kötü. Ondan farkl? geli?meye ne zaman ba?lad?m? Bu ayr?l?k ne zaman do?du? Hiç anlam?yorum. Bir gün bir bakt?m, iki yabanc? olarak ya??yoruz ayn? evde.

Tarih gibi bo?anmalar da zaman zaman yeniden yorumlan?r.

The winds of change can often blow with calmness and grace.

Knowledge is a package that time unwraps

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying.

There seem to be solid biological reasons why we are the way we are. If there weren't, the cycles wouldn't keep replaying. The human species is a kind of animal, of course. But we can do something no other animal species has ever had the option to do. We can choose: We can go on building and destroying until we either destroy ourselves or destroy the ability of our world to sustain us. Or we can make