Quotes About Evolution

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.

I've come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it's not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.

In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution - and not altruistic compassion - as the final word on the survival of a species.

I'm absolutely an amoeba. It's my survival value.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.