Quotes About Evolution

Le seul avenir de l'avenir est de devenir un passé. Quand l'avenir se jette sur nous, il a tellement hâte de se changer en passé qu'il ne prend que pour un instant, pour un soupir, pour un clin d'œil, pour un éclair la forme fragile du présent. On pourrait presque soutenir que le temps n'a qu'une idée: sauter l'étape du présent.

la science d'aujourd'hui détruit l'ignorance d'hier et elle fera figure d'ignorance au regard de la science de demain. Dans le cœur des hommes il y a un élan vers autre chose qu'un savoir qui ne suffira jamais à expliquer un monde dont la clé secrète est ailleurs

Uneori progresul este cel are m?soara decaden?a.

Acestea sunt paradoxurile, salturile ?i evit?rile pe care le aduce scurgerea timpului. Ea ba le accelereaz?, ba le încetine?te.

Maybe speech has been an evolutionary mistake; maybe everybody would get along better if we couldn't talk to each other.

Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.

Miss Saigon from Madam Butterfly. The Hours from Mrs. Dalloway. The Lion King from Hamlet

Malaga Alves." Obviously. Everything that rises must converge.

Guys were first effigies, then urchins. But always male

Humanism, he continued, leaning toward his colleagues with the zeal of his conviction even as he stumbled over his words, that holds as its core value the belief that human beings can learn and grow and change, and that art—and literature—can fuel that evolution. But

The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

A culture which requires people to live in a way for which their evolution has not prepared them, which does not fulfill their innate expectations and therefore pushes their adaptability beyond its limits, is bound to damage their personalities.

The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.

The Clan lived by unchanging tradition. Every facet of their lives from the time they were born until they were called to the world of the spirits was circumscribed by the past. It was an attempt at survival, unconscious and unplanned except by nature in a last-ditch effort to save the race from extinction, and doomed to failure. They could not stop change, and resistance to it was self-defeating, anti-survival.

Our lives are strikingly different from the lives of those in decades past, primarily due to the technology we rely on.

iGen'ers bring new attitudes about communication. Many don't understand why anyone uses email when texting is so much faster. "For a while, I thought email was what people meant when they referred to 'snail mail,' " wrote 16-year-old Vivek Pandit in his book We Are Generation Z. "Eventually I realized that snail mail was the paper stuff that [takes] days to reach someone. I call that 'ancient mail.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Mais crains que l'avenir détruisant le passé

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

Things changed. Things that defined your life altered and shifted while you weren't paying attention. Sometimes you didn't even notice until you missed them.