Quotes About Evolution

Pero el hombre que regresa por la Puerta en el Muro ya no será nunca el mismo que salió por ella. Será más instruido y menos engreído, estará más contento y menos satisfecho de sí mismo, reconocerá su ignorancia más humildemente, pero, al mismo tiempo

Civilización es esterilización

The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discovered by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meanings re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations.

Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy.

Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do.

Por mucho que las cosas cambien, si no las miras, si no tiendes la mano para tocarlas, nunca te darás cuenta de que ya no son las que eran. No pasará nada.

Todos somos como somos porque hemos sido algo antes

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.

Tal vez la vida, a veces, te cambia de una forma que no hay nada más que decir.

Perchè ciò che si salverà non sarà mai quel che abbiamo tenuto al riparo dai tempi, ma ciò che abbiamo lasciato mutare, perchè ridiventasse se stessi un un tempo nuovo.

Qualsiasi grande può regredire a inutile comparsa se una mutazione cambia il punto di vista e rende difficile annoverarlo fra i profeti dal nuovo mondo. [...] Non è tanto una questione di forza della singola opera e del singolo autore: è la prospettiva che detta la regola: poi, solo dopo, interviene quella forza, a orientare i giudizi.

Kakav si kao dijete takav ?eš ostati do kraja života, ne po?injemo ispo?etka da bismo se promijenili. Po?injemo ispo?etka da bismo promenili stol, rekla je. Neprestano mislimo da smo se zatekli u pogrešnoj partiji i da bismo s našim kartama mogli bog zna što uraditi samo ako sjednemo za drugi stol.

I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after all, but a kind of super-language, where stories, like words, are ways of encapsulating information?

It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.

If you look at the way society and our nation have progressed, a simple rule is that they have progressed by converting private responsibilities to public responsibilities.

But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never make any progress - ever. We'd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth.

Do you know that dogs are descendants of wolves—all dogs, even those ridiculous little dogs you see in the parks. Wolves. Imagine how embarrassed a real wolf would be if he knew that he was cousin to a shih-tzu? Of course, we shouldn't think animals have feelings like us—I don't think they can be embarrassed, do you? My daughter's cat is incapable of feeling anything very much, I can tell you—and certainly not embarrassment...

what is one thing today becomes quite another thing tomorrow.

Nobody is so bad that there is no chance of change.

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.

She saw the picture of idle fishing boats tied up at Peterhead; further gloom for Scotland and for a way of life that had produced such a strong culture. Fishermen had composed their songs; but what culture would a generation of computer operators leave behind them?

We forget, she thought. We think that we were always the way we are now, but we were not. —

But look at it now: a detective agency, right here in Gaborone, with me, the fat lady detective, sitting outside and thinking these thoughts about how what is one thing today becomes quite another thing tomorrow.