Quotes About Evolution

No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past few days had turned her into a reserved yet intelligent young woman.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

she had only made things worse. His angry eyes met hers in the mirror, and she remembered his soft plump infant hand pressed against her cheek, his laughter trilling through the rooms. Another boy altogether, that child. Where had he gone?

dirt, but the machine began to make

Screened bottom boards were used by beekeepers more than 150 years ago for improved ventilation. Beekeepers replaced them with solid bottom boards in the winter, and over time the expense of having two pieces of equipment fell into disfavor, and the screens went away.)

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

I liked beginnings better than endings.

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun

But a pawn could become a queen if she reached the end and came back again.

The world was going to change again. I should have worn nicer shoes.

I've changed." I didn't want to hear this. They never changed, they simply hid it better.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.

Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.

History is humankind trying to get a grip.

A mammal never forgets a bad scare; and they were mammals.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

This was perhaps the evolutionary usefulness of the elderly, Bao had concluded: to give the young some kind of psychic shield from reality, putting them under a description which allowed them to ignore the fact that age and death would come to them too, and could come early and out of sequence.

We have come a long way, we have a long way to go. In between we are somewhere.

Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.

We are the primitives of an unknown civilization

A hurt mammal never forgets. Epigenetic theory suggests an almost Lamarckian transfer down the generations; some genes are activated by experiences, others are not. Genes, language, history: what it all meant in actual practice was that fear passed down through the years, altering organisms for generation after generation, thus altering the species. Fear, an evolutionary force.

by the time life gets smart enough to leave its planet, it's too smart to want to go. Because it knows it won't work. So it stays home. It enjoys its home. As why wouldn't you?