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Quotes About Evolution

Russia is a country with unpredictable past.
~ Rodric Braithwaite
so that age and subsequent generation always go on destroying and spoiling what went before:
~ Roger Ariew
Your belief system needs to include the idea that feedback from others should not be feared but desired.
~ Roger Connors
I am also fascinated by how Darwin's theory of evolution applies to zombies.
~ Roger Ebert
The only way to measure our progress is to read about what this country used to be.
~ Roger Lea MacBride
do not see how natural selection, in itself, can evolve algorithms which could have the kind of conscious judgements of the validity of other algorithms that we seem to have.
~ Roger Penrose
Indeed, the first thing you might learn, in considering jokes, is that Marcel Duchamp's urinal was one—quite a good one the first time around, corny by mid-twentieth century, and downright stupid today.
~ Roger Scruton
As a student of business administration, I know that there is a law of evolution for organizations as stringent and inevitable as anything in life. The longer one exists, the more it grinds out restrictions that slow its own functions. It reaches entropy in a state of total narcissism. Only the people sufficiently far out in the field get anything done, and every time they do they are breaking half a dozen rules in the process.
~ Roger Zelazny
Ali gotovo uvijek idemo najkra?im putem, ravno, pa zaboravljamo da ?ovjek može napredovati ?ak i kad ide u krug.
~ Roger Zelazny
All progress demands payment. These are the growing pains of which you speak, not the final results. Fool! There is no such thing as progress! Not as you see it! What good are all the machines and ideas you unloose in their cultures, if you do not change the men themselves?
~ Roger Zelazny
I collapsed into the chair. I am what might be called a slow starter. I tend to recapitulate phylogeny every morning. Basic desires inched their ways through my gray matter to close a connection. Slowly, I extended a cold-blooded member and clicked my talons against a couple of numbers. I croaked my desire for food and lots of coffee to the voice that responded. Half an hour later I would only have growled. Then I staggered off to the place of flowing waters to renew my contact with basics.
~ Roger Zelazny
Go ahead and smirk. These things are not always a mere function of time
~ Roger Zelazny
Time had changed the magical to mundane
~ Rohinton Mistry
Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote, All things fall and are built again, and those that build them are gay.
~ Rohinton Mistry
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures , nothing but mutations.
~ Roland Barthes
I was young those nights, but I was getting over it.
~ Ron Carlson
Errors once discovered are more than half amended
~ Ron Chernow
In his later years, William traded in his Baptist upbringing for a more epicurean life.
~ Ron Chernow
Congress lacked many of the prerequisites of an authentic government—an army, a currency, taxing power—yet it evolved in pell-mell fashion into the first government of the United States.
~ Ron Chernow
The sum total of these developments resulted in nothing less than a revolution in medical education.
~ Ron Chernow
What nobody could have foreseen in 1913 was that
~ Ron Chernow
The whole dismal parade of career hacks and self-promoting political generals on the Union side had been weeded out, giving way to a new fighting breed.
~ Ron Chernow
John's moustache began to fall out, and all the hair on his body had followed by August.
~ Ron Chernow
The tapestry that science weaves in describing the evolution of our universe is richer and far more fascinating than any revelatory images or imaginative stories that humans have concocted. Nature comes up with surprises that far exceed those that the human imagination can generate.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss