Quotes About Evolution

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

I want to do something with my life; I want to be a cyborg.

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

You express different energies at different times in your life.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Maar, lieve mensen, u zult toch een beetje moeten denken, dat geeft een hele steun. Het is immers duidelijk dat de hele geschiedenis der mensheid voor zover wij die kennen, de geschiedenis is van de overgang van nomadische levensvormen naar een al meer gezeten levenswijze. Volgt daar niet uit dat de meest gezeten levenswijze (de onze) tevens de meest volmaakte (de onze) is?

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I saw all my new mom friends go through a sadness other than postpartum depression: it is grieving the loss of your old self, of who you used to be.

The successful parents I saw were able to redefine who they were and renegotiate their needs and roles as humans, parents, and partners.

Parenting is constant readjustment.

Life is about drawing and redrawing who we are and how we behave without shame or judgment.

You remind me of everything that followed.

All tradition is merely the past.

The sun had risen as usual, but nothing else about the day was the same as the day before.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It's a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." EINSTEIN

You know how I used to joke that your mother had three thousand six hundred and twenty-two feelings and I had the requisite five basic ones which have an evolutionary purpose? Because, quite frankly, most of the time I didn't know what the bloody hell she was on about? Well, since coming round from surgery I'm finding myself having others, another . . . perhaps the sixth emotion.

An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.

Here's what it all boils down to: To become the differentiator, you need to always be learning.

The only way to answer the question "Are things getting better or are they getting worse?" is to discover whether modern man knows more or is wiser than his ancestors, Weaver argued. And his answer to this question was no. With the scientific revolution, "facts"—particular explanations for how the world works—had replaced "truth"—a general understanding of the meaning of its existence.