Quotes About Evolution

But you can certainly take fifteen years off everything these days." She paused. "But you can't take height off a mountain.

microbial resistance to antibiotics…

Everything, thought Mama Ramotswe, has been something before.

Could you say that your business had expanded if it had gone from owning one teapot to two? Somehow

You'll grow up. People did not like to be told that, she thought, because we all think that what we are now is what we shall be tomorrow. That was clearly false—but we all believed it.

It was not really like a person moving, thought Mma Ramotswe; it was more a geological movement

I've shed my own skin and merged into the fog.

but of course any time we become something other than ourselves, it is just death by another name.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Ours is a time of space telescopes, electron microscopes, supercomputers, and the worldwide web. This is not a time for parsing the lessons given to a few goatherds, tentmakers, and camel drivers. Rev. Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution!

The fossil record quietly accounts for me...

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.

Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.

The best leaders never stop learning.

success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

Too often science seems oblivious to the fact that human beings have been interacting with nature over a long period of time ... and that what we mean by nature is, to some extent, a product of that history.

Let's face it, the universe is messy. It is nonlinear, turbulent, and chaotic. It is dynamic. It spends its time in transient behavior on its way to somewhere else, not in mathematically neat equilibria. It self-organizes and evolves. It creates diversity, not uniformity. That's what makes the world interesting, that's what makes it beautiful, and that's what makes it work.

A system generally goes on being itself, changing only slowly if at all, even with complete substitutions of its elements-as long as its interconnections and purposes remain intact.

A stock, then, is the present memory of the history of changing flows within the system.