Quotes About Evolution

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting.

Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis.

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors.

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.

Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.

Einstein said that insantiy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

should not surprise us that, at the end of a journey, our destination looks different than we imagined at the beginning. Everything looks different up close.

sociosexual propagation misfits.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

You and the tree in your backyard come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, the two of you parted ways. But even now, after an immense journey in separate directions, that tree and you still share a quarter of your genes. . . .

Life has a way of talking to the future. It's called memory. It's called genes.

Richard Reeves

The price to sequence a base [of the human genome] has fallen 100 million times. That's the equivalent of you filling up your car with gas in 1998, waiting until 2011, and now you can drive to Jupiter and back twice.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

I'd come to realize that if a man is ever going to grasp anything it won't be by learning. His being has to change. You are what you do, not what you know. A man never learns; he becomes. To become, you must find ways and means to change your entire state of mind. This in turn will lead to a change of being.

In recognition that any good idea is a fragile thing, you have to give it a few minutes to breath—like a good red wine.

This is also part of the story: how the story changes.

Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts from one foot to the other.

We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

let's just get going, let's just get gone

Rumplestiltskin names that are always changing, names that no one's ever able to figure out.