Quotes About Evolution

This isn't the end of the story. Maybe it's the end of a part of the story, but not the whole of it.

or like Jeff Goldblum says in Jurassic Park, "Life finds a way.

O mundo mudou, o senhor sabe. Ou mudamos com ele e prosperamos ou agitamos os punhos para o céu. Prefiro a primeira escolha. E quanto ao senhor, Weaver? O que prefere?

Good Gad, Weaver. That look upon your face is one of inspiration. I hardly know you any longer.

Note that having a large brain is biologically costly: the brain is an expensive organ to run, and large ones consume many precious calories (the human brain accounts for a whopping 20 percent of our energy expenditure).

Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

We are the first species in the known history of three and a half billion years of life on earth with the capacity to control our own destiny. The prospect of designing our destiny remains excellent to the degree that we comprehend our evolutionary past. Only by examining the complex repertoire of human sexual strategies can we know where we came from. Only by understanding why these human strategies have evolved can we control where we are going.

Beauty is in the adaptations of the beholder. —DONALD SYMONS, "What Do Men Want?

Las mujeres que elegían a los hombres en parte por su fortaleza y habilidades físicas tenían más posibilidades de sobrevivir y reproducirse.

It is a source of power to recognize that women hold the reins in this evolutionary equation, and their mate selections, in principle, have the power to undermine male control and create greater equality between the sexes.

Too much light inhibits the activity of the brain", Carrel said. "Surely you've noticed that the world's great civilizations have formed far above the equator, where there is much less direct sunlight than in tropical regions".

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.

history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

So many things were new. Everything changed. The past would not hold and could not be held.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid.