Quotes About Evolution

How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

To blithely say "it could have happened" that a life-permitting, life-producing, and life-sustaining universe is the product of chance is naive. It fails to take seriously all that is required to get from "zero" to a single-celled organism to Homo sapiens.

The future's better than the past. Or what's the point?

You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.

God is love and love is evolution's best day

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Da ward sie zu einer Kuh; er aber ward zu einem Stier und begattete sich mit derselben. Daraus entstand das Rindvieh.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

It has been a long transition from interacting with computers using a soldering iron to interacting using a mouse. It has been neither smooth nor planned.

The one thing that does not change is that, at any and every time, it appears that there have been great changes

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.

Introducing change is like pulling off a bandage : the pain is a memory as soon as you feel it.

The certainty's is gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.

The certainty's gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.

Respected political and military leaders saw the world as a Darwinian battleground, where the fittest race would emerge triumphant from a savage fight to the death.

For pantheists, evolution is a universal force that works even on nonliving things. From the very first instant of our universe, every individual thing has existed in the midst of other things, and has had to adapt to the community of beings in which it finds itself. Evolution is at work even in the realms of mind and of society. Ideas, scientific theories, technologies and products are tested against each other and the most effective survive.

The day before yesterday we were atoms in the heart of a burning star - yesterday we were dust in a collapsing proto-star - today we are living humans - tomorrow we may be soil, beetles, grass, trees, birds.

The Universe is our creator. We are made of star stuff. Our hydrogen and much of our helium emerged in the first few minutes after the big bang, the rest of our elements were forged by fusion inside stars, strewn across space in novae and supernovae, and transformed into heavier elements in successive star generations. Finally they were regathered in our solar system providing the elements that allowed life to evolve.

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

Relationships don't only fail because the person you're with turns out to be the wrong person; they also fail when you yourself aren't yet the person you need to be.

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.