Quotes About Evolution

Yes's whole career was never really planned in any sort of way. It's always sad when a member leaves, but it's exciting when someone new comes in, and that regenerates the freshness of the band.

People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.

I have never had any success in planning my life, really.

When we make a record, we don't discuss how we are planning on doing it. It's a very natural and organic growth.

I used to plan a lot. I have stopped planning after 'Mahadev.'

There's a big difference between me and other YouTubers - a lot of them have big, concrete plans. I'm still this weird chicken with my head cut off. I don't know what I want to do next and haven't known that since I started.

I always wanted to become a doctor but then my plans changed gradually.

Isobutanol is not a natural product, but we evolved an enzyme that makes it possible to convert plant sugars to this precursor to jet fuel.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.

The brain is plastic, continuously changing its organization.

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.

Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

We're really thinking how do we re-imagine PayPal almost as a service. PayPal as a SaaS platform.

Acting on a digital platform is similar to the big screen.