Quotes About Evolution

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

In my last years, I was conscious how I used to play the game when I first broke through. It was absolute chalk and cheese. I probably finished at the right time. There won't be many players like me in the future.

So I've never made a conscious decision to cajole people into thinking I'm not that slacker guy from 'My Family' anymore.

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was really a libertarian.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.

When surroundings change, we should also change how we make money.

I think time has changed everything. Not only music but our surroundings, technology, fashion - everything has changed with time, and it will keep changing every day.

It's weird, the evolution of a person. You understand yourself, you understand your surroundings. Then, when you understand who came before you, once you understand that about yourself and the energy that you came to this planet with, you understand more about yourself.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.