Quotes About Evolution

it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment—all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.

Cephalopods are an island of mental complexity in the sea of invertebrate animals. Because our most recent common ancestor was so simple and lies so far back, cephalopods are an independent experiment in the evolution of large brains and complex behavior. If we can make contact with cephalopods as sentient beings, it is not because of a shared history, not because of kinship, but because evolution built minds twice over.

When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origin of us all.

The chemistry of life is an aquatic chemistry. We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

If we want to understand other minds, the minds of cephalopods are the most other of all.

What is the point of building a large nervous system if your life is over in a year or two? The machinery of intelligence is expensive, both to build and to run.

The mind evolved in the sea.

Cephalopods are evolution's only experiment in big brains outside of the vertebrates.

our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature

the Garden of Ediacara.

Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time.

Wydoro?le? znaczy najpierw zapomnie?, a potem zaprzeczy? temu, co by?o wa?ne, gdy si? by?o dzieckiem.

The same ideas that created the problem will not be able to solve it.

Roman language, Latin, is the foundation of not just Italian, but also of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Latin also left a deep impression on non-Latin languages, such as English. Even after Latin fell out of everyday use, it remained the unifying language of learning, particularly medicine and science.

They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?

Still. No resolution ever. None. Nothing decided, nothing finished. The Dipper wheels back into place. Just one turn. One turn of the wheel and we are different, never the same. Not ever. Not even those stars. Even they, they decay, collapse, coalesce, break apart. Close my eyes.

I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.

Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower.

A husk of herself that had been a barrier I hadn't even been aware of. And in the sloughing off, she opened and flowered. Corny, huh? Not really. Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower. I wouldn't know what it is she let go of.

was swiftly plain that life in After Covid Britain would be enduringly different from Before Covid Britain.

It's not that Darwinism isn't describing something real. It's just not life. It's death… and Hell.

The problem with this world is not that God made it good and we messed it up; the problem with this world is simply that it is not yet finished, and neither are you. It's the sixth day and God is still making us in his image and likeness.

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Scheme against your most sacred principles in thought, word and deed…. The only clear view is from atop a mountain of your dead selves.