Quotes About Evolution

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

The capitalist era is passing . . . not quickly, but inevitably.

consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857, that same trip by rail would have taken 72 hours.12

De Waal's argument is, I believe, one of the most egregious fallacies in studies of evolution. It is to claim that, simply because we are closely related genetically, we must be closely related behaviourally.

Give me a second to put on something a little less Almost Got Killed In.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind

You don't suppose this kind of thing is ever finished, do you? Tomorrow it'll be something else-and another fella will have to stand up. And you've helped give him the guts to do it!

Quand j'étais petite, je gardais les vaches; maintenant ce sont elles qui me gardent…

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

In this game, mistakes and errors are good. They help us uncover new relationships.

Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

The second mistake is the tacit assumption that first you go to school, and when you are done, you go get a job. This made sense when jobs and skills changed on a generational timescale, but it does not in today's fast-moving labor markets. These two phases of life need to be strongly interleaved, or at least the opportunity for new skill acquisition must be explicit and omnipresent.

Which is the point: the future looks a lot more like the past than you might expect.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

The old Hollywood I knew is dead. It only exists now in still photographs and a few people's memories." — Olivia de Havilland

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

there's no point in mourning mistakes when you can fix them