Quotes About Evolution

I've been me for so long, what am I going to be if that's gone?

Hi, Keitu. Look how you've grown," I say, which is stupid because it's the last thing kids want to hear.

Nothing is ever the same the second time. It might be worse. It might be better. But it's never the same. And it's never as simple or innocent as it once might have seemed.

Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.

Innovation is the name of the game;

After all, isn't consciousness the gateway to awareness. And awareness is the seed of change.

did you lose your mind all of the sudden or was it a slow, gradual process?

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

no one really knows anyone. That's the thing about relationships - people are always saying, "I want to know you, I want to know who you are." But it is so hard for anyone to even know themselves. Who I am is always changing, so how can anyone else share in that?

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.

Roszak argued that modern psychology has split the inner life from the outer life, and that we have repressed our "ecological unconscious" that provides "our connection to our evolution on earth.

The wild gatecrashes our civilised domains, and the domesticated escapes and runs riot. Weeds vividly demonstrate that natural life - and the course of evolution itself - refuse to be constrained by our cultural concepts. In doing so they make us look closely at the very idea of a divided creation.

We in effect challenge the unwanted prodigy to produce forms that slip through our control systems. It does not take much to beat us. One seed in a thousand may germinate later than the last hoeing, pass through the sieve intended to exclude it, show a mysterious immunity to weedkillers. The following year there are five . . .

Weeds made the first vegetables, the first home medicines, the first dyes.

Weeds vividly demonstrate that natural life – and the course of evolution itself – refuse to be constrained by our cultural concepts. In so doing they make us look closely at the very idea of a divided creation.

How long did it take for a past to die?

We cannot easily add lanes to roads, but we've learned how to easily add features to software. This isn't a defect of our software processes, but a virtue of the medium in which we work.

You don't marry one person you marry three . the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you.

The best thing you can do with your ideas is to always be ready to abandon them.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

He was no longer that boy; she was no longer that girl. But both still lived within them, she understood, and they were meeting again, deepened by all that had happened to them since, the realization of all they had missed.

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.