Quotes About Evolution

this development produced what is called Middle English, known especially from Chaucer

There is no reason why pragmatists steeped in Darwinism should not be reactionary or conservative, and so it is no surprise that some have been.

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.

some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time.

When the topic of pseudonymous composition arises, I like to ask my students whether all those albums issued under the name of Bob Dylan for the last fifteen years can possibly be the work of the same person who performed "Highway 61 Revisited.")

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Another time, another place.

the chapter explains the three-cascading-constraints perspective by walking through, in sequence, the situation where all three constraints were binding (before 1820), the situation where only two were binding (up to 1990), and finally, today's situation where only one is binding.

When you understand where you are in your development and what stage is coming up next, you can make choices that anticipate future challenges and thereby accelerate the pace of your development.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

La estrategia de "no hacer olas" tal vez era viable como modelo empresarial hace veinte años, pero hoy en día, dada la velocidad frenética del mundo de los negocios, es un despropósito. En la actualidad, quedarse quieto es ir hacia atrás, ¡y a gran velocidad!

si las cosas no cambian, mañana estarán igual que hoy".

SIR OLIVER. Egad so He does — mercy on me — He's greatly altered — and seems to have a settled married look — one may read Husband in his Face at this Distance.

All naturally evolved religions--cultural viruses--are bundles of memes.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

For Darwinian biology the organism is the nexus of the internal and external forces. It is only through natural selection of internally produced variations, which happen to match by chance the externally generated environmental demands, that what is outside and what is inside confront each other.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." ? Gautama Buddha