Quotes About Evolution

After 'Jungle,' people have realized that I'm not just a sex symbol.

I always look for characters that will hopefully develop into a more powerful symbol.

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

For sure yeah, Bullet Club is definitely synonymous with pro wrestling as a whole.

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

It's not the Dark Destroyer no more, because everything synonymous with the Dark Destroyer I don't want to know.

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and certain things just get forgotten and left out and neglected.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.

Systemic change rarely comes overnight.

It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

Sometimes you have to destroy the past so that you'll learn how to live in the new world.

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

I guess my question is: Is the new you the stranger? Or is the stranger the person you leave behind?" -Sherm