Quotes About Evolution

John cursed himself. Or rather, he cursed the past version of himself for so thoughtlessly screwing over the current version of himself.

That's what life is. Adjustment.

I don't know how they catch the birds. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Flying Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay.

John, possessing a genetic defect that makes him walk toward danger, strode down toward where it looked like some cops were trying to set up a perimeter around the chaos. Somewhere, Charles Darwin nodded and smiled a knowing smile.

Today's cloud is tomorrow's puddle.

I stared out of the window, at my Bronco rusting in the parking lot, the metal eager to get back to just being dirt. Life was probably easier for it back then.

Alcohol was the reason we formed complex civilizations, and having to deal with the complexities of civilization is the reason most of us need alcohol.

Somewhere, Charles Darwin nodded and smiled a knowing smile.

We can't see around walls, we can't see heat or cold, we can't see electricity or radio signals, we can't see at a distance. It is a sense so limited that we might as well not have it, yet we have evolved to depend so heavily on it as a species that all other perception has atrophied.

With every new moment, he was no longer the man he'd been the moment before.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

There are three requisites for growth without bound, and only three: the will to remake oneself, the genius to survive, and the strength to suffer.

It is both mysterious and miraculous that roughly the same intelligence necessary to flake a barbed spearpoint is sufficient to discover the theorems of mathematics. In a different universe, it might have been otherwise. And so human beings would have been spared the tragedy of existing half as ape and half as god.

As a germinated seed seeks its way out of the ground into the light of day, I longed to break free of the old thoughtways that stifled me and restrained my inspiration.

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

Never stop working on yourself. You can't change other people but you definitely can change yourself.

The changes might not show up in a week or a month, but consistent practice over time can turn you into a completely different person.

Even the mantis has stopped praying

I am Become Text Message. Destroyer Of Words.

You can't live in the digital and die in the analog.

the currency of the future will be memory

All creativity is a work in progress

The future will one day be a distant memory

If your views don't change over time it means you're fixated on an hypnotic landscape. Move on. There is more to see.