Quotes About Evolution

However we select from nature a complex (of phenomena) using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate...But I do not doubt that the day will come when that description (the general theory of relativity), too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that that this process of deepening the theory has no limits.

Temo il giorno in cui la tecnologia andrà oltre la nostra umanità: il mondo sarà popolato allora da una generazione di idioti

Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them.

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

Debo estar dispuesto a renunciar a lo que soy para convertirme en lo que seré

There is always a certain charm in tracing the evolution of theories in the original papers; often such study offers deeper insights into the subject matter than the systematic presentation of the final result polished by the words of many contemporaries.

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Les américains sont le seul peuple a être passé directement de la barbarie à la décadence sans passer par ce que l'on nomme ailleurs : Civilisation !

Nulla darà la possibilità di sopravvivenza sulla terra quanto l'evoluzione verso una dieta vegetariana

That fellow Einstein suits his convenience. Every year he retracts what he wrote the year before.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Evolution is arranged so that a species survives, not so that it will be happy while it survives.

But we can choose to change ourselves remarkably.

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding the volumes in my library, my words and my world - except for a few constant landmarks - are never one and the same. Heraclitus's bon mot about time applies equally well to my reading: "You never dip into the same book twice.

the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years ago and of which we know nothing; every reading projects its shadow onto the following page, lending it content and context. In this way, the story grows, layer after layer, like the skin of the society whose history this act preserves.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

I've often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years.

Every story is a palimpsest, composed of layers of tellings and retellings, and every time we think we are parroting a well-known anecdote the words shed their feathers and sprout new ones for the occasion.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.