Quotes About Evolution

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

One thing I have found over years is that if you change direction, the initial reaction tends to be very polarized, but as the music gradually filters through and fans start engaging with it on its own terms rather than comparing it to what went before, the appreciation and acceptance of it increases.

I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.

I think my progression with tennis has been pretty steady.

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

Games like 'Call of Duty' and 'NBA Baller Beats' have so much to them. I was more of the 'Pac-Man' generation where we were excited to play table tennis on the TV.

The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.

The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.

There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends.

I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.

It's really important we stay in touch with our customers and try to, over time, have more packages and flexibility than perhaps we have historically offered. And that's part of that tension that is healthy that is going on in the marketplace.

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

We've all evolved as players throughout our tenure in the league.

In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.

The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity.

I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.