Quotes About Evolution

To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.

Every moment, as it has passed, has changed something in them; Time has transformed the faces, voices, laughter. For Time is a murderer, and every moment is a little death,(...)

Det var i Almindelighed folk, som man maatte sige var tat af Vinden. Talere og Skribenter, som havde slaat sig til Ro indenfor Grænserne af sine Evner, og ikke saa længer og ikke tænkte længer. De havde ikke Brug for Udvikling. Der de stod, der stod de. De var Kommunister.

My whole consciousness underwent some change, a tissue in my brain parted.

But for some reason I have not yet become a fish. - The Box Man, p.36

To put it in terms of information theory, the new technology overwrites the old one. The technology saved under a new file name survives as a new species.

Yabani bir hayvan?n içgüdüselliÄŸini tetikleyen itkilerin tamam?, yaratt?klar? etki itibar?yla, her zaman için, hayvan?n ve onun ait olduÄŸu türün lehine sonuçlanma zorunluluÄŸu ta??r. Onun yaÅŸam alan?nda doÄŸal eÄŸilimler ile zorunluluklar aras?nda bir çat??k? yoktur, içten gelen her dürtü 'iyi'dir. Ä°nsanoÄŸlu bu cennetsi uyumu kaybetti.

Pero no se comprende tan claramente cómo semejante ritualización es en el hombre fruto de la transmisión histórica de un pueblo, mientras que en el animal representa un desarrollo filogenético de formas de movimiento innatas y hereditarias.

Sólo hay un ser que dispone de armas que no han crecido con su cuerpo y de las cuales, por tanto, nada saben sus formas innatas de comportamiento; de aquí que no existan las consabidas y eficaces inhibiciones. Este ser es el hombre.

Gli uccelli allevati in isolamento, che non hanno mai visto un loro simile, nella maggior parte dei casi non <> a quale specie appartengono, e perciò il loro istinto sociale e il loro desiderio sessuale si rivolgono verso le creature con le quali hanno trascorso determinate fasi evolutive particolarmente importanti: quindi, nella maggior parte dei casi, vero l'uomo.

Darwin says people like you need to die." (Carrow)

when men like us do change, the change is profound.

I believe in times of adversity there's a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you'll never be the same.

Cryptology used to be the realm of linguists. Now it's dominated by the geeks." She said this proudly, as if she was one among them. "We're going to rule the world, you know?" What Holly didn't understand was that when she said things like this, she didn't sound like a geek—she sounded like a Valkyrie.

I will rise from the ashes of the old ways to become Phenïx, the goddess of . . . accessions.

Apparently, he was a show-er and a grower.

Nïx paused dramatically. "I will rise from the ashes of the old ways to become Phenïx, the goddess of . . . accessions.

When you can't change your situation, you must change yourself.

I can't steer, can't change. Before there were waves or eddies; now stone. Our enemies laugh.

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Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes

Varje generation människor i ett specifikt samhälle kan bygga vidare på det som generationerna före lärde sig; i motsats till det finns det bland våra fantastiska apkusiner inte mycket till kulturellt arv och när det gäller de flesta andra organismer inget alls.

When I return I shall be as other men are. I have always liked you as you were, said Dorothy simply.