Quotes About Evolution

It is not basically a question of the size in repose, I said. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.

Por entonces, ya había descubierto que todo, lo bueno y lo malo, deja un vacío cuando se interrumpe. Pero si se trata de algo malo, el vacío va llenándose por sí solo. Mientras que el vacío de algo bueno sólo puede llenarse descubriendo algo mejor.

Al acercarse a los cuarenta años, Ernest Hemingway se había transformado en una peculiar figura

Then several women had put themselves out to be nice to him, and his horizons had all shifted.

Belmonte was no longer well enough. He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring. He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Go and be fish again.

The easiest way to get rid of an unwanted conditioned response is to substitute a better response.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.

Las viejas costumbres mueren despacio

MI definición de una mujer hermosa ha ido cambiando con el tiempo. En mis años mozos era una rubia despampanante; más adelante fue una mujer madura, afable, conversadora y con bueno sentido del humor; y hoy en día sería una mujer que se contenta con sentarse a mi lado a ver la televisión.

Human relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for instance. It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.

Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

Any person or system exposed to ceaseless novelty and change risks falling into chaos; but one that is too rigid or static ceases to grow and eventually dies. This never-ending dance between change and stability is like the anchor and the waves.

Now that these men and women and the generations who have followed can have as much sex as they want, they seem to have lost their desire for it.

He invites us to recognize that our values evolve as we mature and "move from an understanding of ethical and moral issues in black and white absolutist terms to comprehending the gray ambiguity of most matters."6

the rise of individualism, the emergence of consumer culture, and the mandate for happiness have transformed matrimony and its adulterous shadow. Affairs are not what they used to be because marriage is not what it used to be.

Over the years, the thinking in the field has evolved, so that we now look at fantasy as a natural component of healthy adult sexuality.

Those who see Show Boat as the progenitor of the form mistake its epic grandeur for its essence. No: most of Show Boat inheres in the zany frivolity of musical comedy, though revisions have been stamping out much of the fun since 1946. Still, the comic nature of Captain Andy and other leads and the use of dance as decoration rather than interpretation place Show Boat in a category of its own.

As they proceeded there, black wings thudded in sudden unison, and a flock of birds flew up as they might from a ploughed field, still shaped like it, like an old map that still served new territory, and wrinkled away in the air.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

If we have to have motors to help us fly, it's no longer natural. People call this progress, but there's nothing progressive about walking with crutches. Soon we shall forget to walk, too, if we don't look out.

Hij keek Madeleine aan. Misschien was ze toch niet zo bijzonder. Ze was zijn ideaal, maar een vroege versie daarvan, en hij zou er mettertijd wel overheen komen. Hij lachte haar een beetje sullig toe. Hij had nu een beter gevoel over zichzelf, alsof hij misschien nog wel eens iets zou kunnen bereiken.