Quotes About Evolution

We humans are great at creating tools with unforeseen consequences. For instance, when we invented the wheel, we had no way of knowing we were also laying the foundations for the TV show 'Top Gear.'

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

I'm constantly surprised when people say, 'But you haven't changed!' It's like saying, 'You've got a wheel. Now why don't you make it a square?'

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.

I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and it is easier to see where the vehicle is going when you are looking at it. For me, it feels like I have been doing the same thing all along.

It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.

As an international cricketer, you have to keep reinventing the wheel, being consistent is part of it.

You know, hip hop is a big ferris wheel that goes around and you've just gotta be able to maintain yourself while it's going around.

At a massive club like Liverpool, people will come and go. It is our job to keep the wheels moving and momentum going.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.

The one thing with the established and traditional media industries is that whenever something new comes along, they don't know what to make of it, and the natural reaction is to fight it or push back.

It's like, whenever I do any kind of cover, if it's a jazz piece or pop cover, I want to honor the original and make sure that the bulk and the juice of what makes that so great is there, but take it to a different place.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.

Each time these pioneers expanded into new realms, they discovered the old ways wouldn't work. Whenever a new domain was inhabited by humans, old survival patterns were left behind and new patterns created.