Quotes About Evolution

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

opposable thumbs than any prior.

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

A woman isn't just one thing. The past is in us, constantly changing us. Heartache and failure shift perspectives as do joy and triumphs.

Man becomes wiser and more mature through life experience. The same can be said of tea.

nothing in the world is permanent. The only permanent thing is impermanence.

She's grabbed onto old traditions-outdated traditions- in the same way I latch onto them now: as a means of survival, as a way to hang on to ghost memories.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.

But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.

It is not the strongest among us who survive. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is those among us who are the most adaptable to change.

I see all the kids—the popular ones, the brains, the jocks, the punks, the burnouts. They are not who they will become. This moment, teenage life, it feels like the whole universe, but it's only a millisecond.

A better reason why we, and other intelligent species, are born with such poorly developed brains is so that we can learn.

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What you call ancient custom is just a bad habit. Somebody did something stupid long ago and you've been doing it ever since. It doesn't make anything better. It only gets stupider and stupider.

We humans now increasingly share in what used to be regarded as the omniscience and omnipotence of God.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn't obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and costumes and a score. But the book hasn't gone away. It has simply grown up, grown larger, and begun to glisten in a new way.

Thomas, she suggested, you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

each change, painful though some of them will be, will make us a little better than we were before.

Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught.