Quotes About Evolution

All futurity wears the head of an insect.

We took 350 billion snaps in 2011 and an astonishing 1.5 trillion in 2013—more than all the photos ever taken before in all of history.

T. H. Huxley, the nineteenth-century evolutionary biologist and author of the "infinite monkey theorem." Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece—

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

To be a human being is to be a continual work of art.

Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment that conceived of the human as almost exclusively rational and intellectual, and set the human at a distance from the animal.

So although they might stare at us and ask, 'Who are these alien people?' We could reply, 'We are you, What you chose to become.

It seems that after the African migration, small numbers of Homo sapiens were better adapted to manage these shifts in climate than earlier versions of human had been. If so, this happened not because of classic Darwinian evolution (there wasn't time) but because of the accelerated development caused by culture – language, learning, copying, remembering.

Man is simply man, and there's nothing that can be done with him. There is no evolution. There is one very simple law, the law of the conservation of violence. It's as simple as the law of the conservation of energy. Violence is eternal, no matter what is done to destroy it. It does not disappear or diminish; it can only change shape.

We probably wiped out other human types, we certainly wiped out other mammals; and throughout our history we have, in the intervals between making art and love, tried very hard to wipe out each other. We began, and we remain, agents of instability.

Human history, properly understood, starts when we move from being just another form of prey in the cycle of eat-and-be-eaten, a creature blown about by the natural world, to a creature beginning to shape the world. We move from happens-to, to makes-happen. But

Human history, properly understood, starts when we move from being just another form of prey in the cycle of eat-and-be-eaten, a creature blown about by the natural world, to a creature beginning to shape the world.

Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University, a specialist in DNA studies, says: 'Every non-African in Australia, America, Siberia, Iceland, Europe, China, and India can trace their genetic inheritance back to just one line coming out of Africa.

All life changes the world, which is in a constant process of flux. Humans,

Human groups who kept cows so as to drink their milk developed digestive systems to cope, while Asians who never did this did not.

So I did something that you're not supposed to do, one more addition to an expanding universe of said things.

Andrew Martin

A story isn't what happens. It's how it happens.

Sharks have millions of years of preprogrammed strategies. Dolphins have cheat codes.

We live in an incredible age. People like Laney get it, so do some of the general public. But I think they're still in that early phase like the internet in the 1990s. Yes, they know space is an industry now. Sure, they may know of someone who is peripherally involved. But they don't realize how big things are going to get.

if there were no stupidity in the world, we'd all be riding around in flying cars and colonizing Proxima Centauri

Other animals, mainly nonmammals, are indifferent. If a predator snatches a child, their evolutionary calculus tells them they're lucky it wasn't them and life goes on.

The machines won, sister. We're just in denial.

I'm not the same man who went into the woods to find Joe Vik. The experience changed me. I became something different.