Quotes About Evolution

There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we encounter scenarios that challenge our beliefs.

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the shift from banjo to guitar played a significant role in the rise of blues: Banjos have very fast sound decay, which means that one has to play relatively quickly and cannot mimic the drawn-out contours of a vocal performance. The guitar has greater sustain, making it more appropriate for slow songs, and also has a warmer tone, making it more suitable for accompanying sentimental ballads or moaning hollers.

The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland. We appeared in different parts of the world at the same time. Each group was as much a part of their environment as the other animals and plants of the region.

Insanity used to be a stranger that lived on the other side of the world. Now it's moved next door. It's only a matter of time until it becomes shipmate, lover, self.

I will unravel here.

a recent study showed they were our closest relatives, sharing 98.7% of our DNA.

We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up under us and we floated to where it met the sea and walked out of the water like creatures in an act of evolution.

That all species are related in the flow of life and death is a keystone of evolutionary theory. The grandeur displayed in this view of life is ecological in character.

A new self reveals itself when the old carapace has shed and died, as though we live in exoskeletons with something truer underneath.

Everything was told! Then we could begin something new.

Well, I've said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place to find the new thing.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

Life is funny, isn't it? Funny in the way you can never predict not only what will happen, but who you'll become.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When

whatever she was up to, the whole thing made him

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.