Quotes About Evolution

reality isn't what it used to be.

Transposing the past is an act of wisdom. It is not scripted. It can't be predicted.

adapting the past to speak to changing circumstances in the present.

Without its unwavering commitment to adaptation over time, the Bible would have died a quick death over two thousand years ago. Its existence as a source of spiritual truth that transcends specific times and places is made possible by its flexibility and adaptive nature—one of the many paradoxes we need to embrace when it comes to the Bible.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.

Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.

rationalize that as something else

A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.

Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.

The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits.

I've only been out a few days. I'd forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There's barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up. I've had to run an expanded mentality in the habitat's RI systems just to keep thinking properly; and that hardware isn't exactly young and frisky any more.

The temperature fell. The rain quickened, thinning the clouds, clearing the sky. Evolution began once more.

we invented the concept back while your DNA was still trying to break free from mollusks.

Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he'd become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?

The game is changing' .. :The game is the same, the stakes are rising.

But rocks falling on our heads can't happen anymore," Alik insisted. "We're not fucking dumbasses like the dinosaurs; we're here to stay. It's Darwin.

but whereas her contemporaries were thickening out, ready for their century of toil on the land, she remained slim and agile.

The Olyix can't always have been miserable fascist bastards," Yuri said. "Something changed them.

Machines served life, it could not be otherwise.

You are new to sentience. Your behaviour is still affected by your animal origin.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

We shall argue that attachment is not an end in itself; rather, it exists in order to produce a representational system that has evolved, we may presume, to aid human survival.