Quotes About Evolution

The historian Arnold Toynbee says of it, "The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

We don't change as we get older—we just get to be more of what we've always been.

Everything new is not the end of the world. Instead, it is the beginning of a new way of being alive that is based on the past but has already grown beyond it.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.

Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

There is evidence from evolutionary biology, sociology, neuroscience, and many other fields that we need to abandon our old misanthropic (and misogynist) notions for a sweeping new view of human nature.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

Precisely because substitutes are not direct rivals, they often come from unexpected places. This makes substitutes difficult to anticipate or even to see once they appear. The threat of substitution is especially tricky when it comes at one remove.

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better.

No internet?" I was stunned. No digital camera. No cell phone. No Google. No drugs. No wine. Why it was almost like my mother's house in 1972.

It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything — staying in motion because sooner or later those ripples will cause change.

Evolution's Rainbow Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People Joan Roughgarden UNIVERSITY

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

But all Austen's heroines are women who can change over time, to grow into what they're meant to be, and encourage their legion of readers to do the same.

by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...

you have to remember that even the humble lizard uses camouflage to save his skin. The little anole can change his color when necessary.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

To be another person than the one you were before means more than I understand. But

Cultural shifts happen on a different level; they come into view only when we step back enough to see a bigger picture changing over time. A newspaper photograph viewed through a magnifying glass may appear only as tiny dots. When it seems as if our lives and choices are like those dots, it can be difficult to recognize their contribution to a bigger picture of change.

though we all applaud the thought of transformation, most of us don't appreciate the process that gets us there. To be transformed means we have to change, and change too often hurts.

Democracy is an ongoing conversation between the governed and their governors; it should come as no surprise that dramatic changes in the modes of conversation cause dramatic changes in democracies themselves.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.