Quotes About Evolution

Sólo debemos pensar seriamente en el futuro cuando nos plantamos demasiado tiempo en el mismo lugar

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

We have all become wayfarers and travellers marching on and on ....Yet,for those who can adapt themselves to this continuous journeying,there is no regret and they would not have it otherwise.A reture to the dull uneventful past is unthinkable.

Since these business owners are not constantly working to obsolesce themselves, they can rest assured that their competitors are.

people grow apart, and sometimes there's nothing anyone can do about it

For three weeks I was in a state of slippage, a gap widening between me and my usual self.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.

information molecule

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

It's only a mistake if you don't learn from it

We are all being called to help usher in a new way of being for humanity. We are called not only for ourselves but to inspire these changes in others.

Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.

It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of human creativity. As David Crystal has expressed it: 'it..is the latest manifestation of the human ability to be linguistically creative... In texting, we are seeing, in a small way, language in evolution...

A future historian of theatre, impressed by recent pronouncements on the state of drama and stage, might call the past two decades, give or take a few years, the Time of Great Experiments. Or, the Age of Transition, during which theatre, as it has been known in the West since the ancient Greeks, finally changed into something different that still might be named theatre, but then might not.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

first law. In every animal… a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ… while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.second law. All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals… are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise.

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.