Quotes About Evolution

Moi je ne suis allé nulle part, c'est le pays qui est parti.

L'Histoire ne fonctionne pas ainsi. Jamais on ne revient en arrière, jamais on ne retrouve l'environnement matériel ou mental d'une époque antérieure. La marche du temps nous fait toujours pénétrer dans des zones nouvelles, mal explorées, peu balisées, et qui ne ressemblent qu'en apparence à celles qu'ont traversées les générations précédentes.

Fakat Denia`l? ozanlardan birinin dedi?i gibi yazg? bir bukalemunun derisinden bile daha de?i?kendir.

Man has survived hitherto Because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either chnage them or perish. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Something happened here. A change. Stealthy, creeping, slow. Like the way the desert is gradually covering the plain, one grain of sand at a time. It took place without us even noticing, so that the moment when we might have resisted passed unremarked.

The white man is in love with the past, with dead things, and soon he will become one.

This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.

Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as if a part of us that was air and breeze had been denied entry.

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.

Anyway, if Calcutta today suffers in comparison, it's not really to other cities, but principally to itself and what it used to be. Anyone who has an idea of what Calcutta once was will find that vanished Calcutta the single most insurmountable obstacle to understanding, or sympathising with, the city today.

Lord Shiva invented the 84 lakhs yoga postures. He derived these postures just by observing the evolution and the journey of the soul in 84 lakh possible births. They are linked to the 84 ragas, 84 primary yoga postures, and the 84 primary nadis.

After Georgie, something had changed in our marriage, and there was nowhere solid to put the blame. We were almost forty, and simultaneously our marriage had - I don' know - thickened, agglutinated, become oatmeal-like. Differences between us that had once provided sparks now seemed inefficient. Was there love? Yes, yes - but at the margins. At the center, there was administration.

Every mistake is a lesson

When a man's own culture falls behind that of his time, he is conservative. When it outstrips and enables him to over-see his time, he is a reformer.

It's hard to imagine now, but as late as 2007, the Intelligence Community's annual threat assessment did not include the word cyber once.42 In 2009, cyber threats still ranked so low on the priority list, they were buried on page 38 of the forty-five-page threat assessment, just below drug trafficking in West Africa.43 Fast forward five years and the world looked very different, with cyber vaulting to the top tier of the 2012 intelligence threat list.

You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered.

There is no such thing as a straight line, the sun does not go down, and it is time we updated our language. A more mesmerizing discourse I have never heard.

For over a century, we've focused too much on relentless execution and depended too much on fear to get things done. That era is over.

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

Species went extinct and new ones evolved from protozoa while he sat in his car in the dark and waited to see how badly he'd fucked this up.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Mountains fall. Deserts bloom. Oceans turn to sand.

Why is it that a worm can regrow most of its body, but we can't replace so much as a finger? I am left with the troubling conclusion that the worm's survival may, in the grand scheme of things, be more important than my own.

The male doesn't eat - it doesn't even have a mouth or an anus - so it does nothing but mate until death.