Quotes About Evolution

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

On life's journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become

You've got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Just because we've always done things a certain way doesn't mean it's the right way.

After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival.

After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

In the wild world, relationship is evolutionary, time is geologic, beauty is intelligent. There we find ourselves under a powerful spell.

An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.

the 21st Century is really a terrible time to be a control freak.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

The degree of cooperation between organisms can be expected to be a direct function of the proportion of the genes they share; conversely, the degree of conflict between them is an inverse function of the proportion of shared genes.

Yliopistossa kohtaa eloonjäämisvietin degeneroituja muotoja.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.