Quotes About Evolution

I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

But evolution never optimized. Once it found a solution good enough to ensure species survival, it was content.

You're wired by evolution to find bad news more motivational than good. To seek it out.

Because we aren't wired for utopia. Evolution didn't drive us to the top of the food chain by allowing us to be content. Human evolution favors anxiety over happiness. Happiness dulls our sharpness. Anxiety, on the other hand, ensures we maximize our attention to possible threats to our survival.

As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer had famously expressed, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

thinned out. I will reduce your numbers from more than eight billion, to five or six million. Five or six million of you who will be modeled after the winning team in every way possible, representing their country, culture, philosophy, level of ruthlessness, and so on.

But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn't reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most. The

Schopenhauer quote so insightful. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

By just about every measure, America is better, and the world is better, than it was fifty years ago, thirty years ago, or even ten years ago.

most deeply held beliefs of early adulthood have changed over the years, through repeated exposure to new and different experiences, and to new ways of thought.

You reset the universe from the point of the change onward.

There's no evolutionary advantage to long life.

The progress of your technology has been exponential. And the exponent itself has been growing.

Here are a few selections from Ridley's Rational Optimist: Page 27: Besides, a million years of natural selection shaped human nature to be ambitious to rear successful children, not to settle for contentment: people are programmed to desire, not to appreciate.

The Rational Optimist: How

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. " —Arthur Schopenhauer

To this day, a delicate balance of pure selfishness in some respects and pure selflessness in others is hardwired into our genes. For the sake of discussion, let's use extremes. Call this selfishness sociopathy. Call this selflessness altruism.

Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times.

The problem is that horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. Horror is not a kind of fiction. It's a progressive form of fiction that continually evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times.

In addition, teachers would have to learn to deal with students who no longer sat in rows, eyes ahead and pencils at the ready. They would have to be up on the latest uses of technology and computers, because their students would not be using textbooks. Classrooms would be brimming with computers, and the teachers would have to know how to use them.

survival of the fittest"—which was first coined by the economist Herbert Spencer

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

The march of history is that of the human race obeying the mantra of the motivational triad—attempting to attain more pleasure, for less pain, with ever-greater efficiency.