Quotes About Evolution

Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

I'm always trying whatever the latest telephone is.

I think what's really going to happen is we're going to have a lot of different kinds of phones when our industry grows up - some that are just plain, simple telephones. In fact, my wife and I started a company, and she designed the Jitterbug, which is just a simple telephone.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that.

What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are calling a person.

The Kecks will allow us, like no other telescope in history, to view the evolving universe that gave us birth.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

It's quite common for a television show to start off as one thing and end up as something completely different. There are so many cooks in the kitchen - the network, the studio.

'Psych' was so many different things, and they evolved in so many different ways over the years, and towards the end there, we were barely solving mysteries anymore. We were just paying homage to our favorite movies, television shows, and bringing through as many '80s icons as we possibly could.

I do realize that television shows end.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

In the second season, usually television shows are running with the characters; they really get them. And then, the third season, they can push characters and really explore secondary storylines and things like that. And so I tend to like third seasons of most shows.