Quotes About Evolution

Women's evolved strategic responses to male demonism have included countermeasures and defiance, but they also included collaboration. That is to say, while men have evolved to be demonic males, it seems likely that women have evolved to prefer demonic males (or imitation demonic males) as mates.

We should accept the likelihood that male violence and male dominance over women have long been a part of our history. But with an evolutionary perspective we can firmly reject the pessimists who say it has to stay that way. Male demonism is not inevitable.

That great human brain is nature's most frightening product. But it is simultaneously nature's best, most hopeful gift. If we are cursed with a demonic male temperament and a Machiavellian capacity to express it, we are also blessed with an intelligence that can, through the acquisition of wisdom, draw us away from the 5-million-year stain of our ape past. Intelligence is something we are familiar with, an old book, and old friend.

It seems to me sometimes that seasons leave us in the way people do, never just gone, but degree by degree, fading like the smell on a loved one's favourite sweater, until the vanishing one day evolves into memory.

The change that comes our way will come in many forms. In sights that are mysterious to our eyes, in sounds that are grating on our ears, in ways of thinking that will crash like thunder in our hearts and minds. But we must learn to ride each one of these horses of change. It is what the future asks of us and our survival depends on it.

The change that comes our way will come in many forms. In sights that are mysterious to our eyes, in sounds that are grating on our ears, in ways of thinking that will crash like thunder in our hearts and minds. But we must learn to ride each one of these horses of change. It is what the future asks of us and our survival depends on it. That is the spirit teaching of the Horse.

Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.

The beautiful changes as a forest is changedBy a chameleon's tuning his skin to it.

People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering...

Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice.

Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.

imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

We need change. I mean, our traditions are important. We shouldn't give up on those. But sometimes, I think we're misguided." "Misguided?" "As time's gone on, we've gone along with other changes. We've evolved. Computers. Electricity. Technology in general. We all agree those make our lives better. Why can't we be the same in the way we act? Why are we still clinging to the past when there are better ways to do things?

That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are....

Todo parece nuevo si uno ignora la historia. Muchos de los métodos que marchan bajo el estandarte del "cambio" han sido utilizados en el pasado ligeramente modificados.

The first step in change is usually discomfort!

In 1800, the average person consumed 5 pounds per year;7 now we average 152 pounds a year.

Assertions that the modern homosexual and modern gay subculture are significantly different from the past are based primarily upon ignorance of that past.

Ne-am n?scut provizoriu, undeva, apoi încetul cu încetul conÅŸtientiz?m în noi originea noastr?, ÅŸi aÅŸa renaÅŸtem mereu, de fiecare dat? mai definitiv.

hypercompetition" to characterize markets in which a firm's competitive advantage would be quickly competed away.8

Consistent, ongoing innovation and extraordinary closeness to customers is the only possible response.

career risk that often leads managers to cling to eroding businesses long after they should have moved on.