Quotes About Evolution

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

Exactly why having more cognitive complexity makes a species live longer isn't totally decided by science yet. But the simplest answer is probably the best answer: The species is using its intelligence to survive. Smart animals figure things out. They solve problems and learn to avoid predators.

Fish can pass memories between generations. But maybe the better way to say it is that fish can pass experience learning through generations.

Rather than "Survival of the Fittest"—which wasn't from Charles Darwin; it was a philosopher interpreting Darwin in 1864— we might have had the opposite, "Survival of the Most Cooperative.

At IndieBio, I quickly learned there was no such master plan— but more than that, it was wrong to think this period we face could be planned out at all. It was fast, blind, and dense. Nobody is an expert in the unknown. Planning wasn't the way to solve it. Experimenting was. There is no plan, just a way.

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Istoria omului reprezinta o lupta continua intre instinct si inteligenta, intre ritmul involuntar al organismului si modelele autocreate ale constiintei.

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that's being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won't approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We've no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.

What else is life but always bidding farewell?

we can't go on ... having regular bowel movements ... while creation happens!

Our own age is not one which can afford to call its ancestors savage.

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

MAN "behaving" like ROBOTS and ROBOTS "evolving" like MAN.............we are fast reaching the point of convergence of the two.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Letakkan cambukmu, raja, kau yang tak tahu bagaimana ilmu dan pengetahuan telah membuka babak baru di bumi manusia ini.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates. All of us, when we were children, also only imitated. But children grow up and begin their own development.

Pada setiap awal pertumbuhan, katanya, semua hanya meniru. Setiap kita semasa kanak-kanak juga hanya meniru. Tetapi kanak-kanak itu pun akan dewasa, mempunyai perkembangan sendiri.

Human beings need tens, even scores, of years before they grow into full adults, human beings at the peak of their abilities

Ya, kita harus belajar Tanca. Kalau tidak, kita akan begini-begini saja.

But no one experience should be followed and dwelt in forever. Life in its more perfected state will be full of alterations–not a rut, into which if you are once set you must continually travel.

we have to create machines to allow us to continue creating machines becouse what machines are never going to do is to create machines

After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.