Quotes About Evolution

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.

In looking back on the novel, I can see a lot of things I would do differently now, but the truth of the matter is, rewriting old work does little more than dress it in new clothes, and sometimes you don't want that. You don't want to see some old guy out there in a speedo. Just doesn't look right. Also, something written with the energy of the moment and in its time makes it different than when you come back and coldly remodel it. It looses its original charm if it ever had any.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

It takes something special to realize that the preconceived choices and beliefs that you've always had aren't necessarily the best ones for you. It's not easy.

pheromones, those fascinating chemicals that can initiate mating behavior in certain species

This is a head-warping, mind-opening, brain-cramping concept. To live it is to transform your life as never before.

More astonishing, perhaps, is that the variation in DNA among members of the human family is actually larger than the variation between humans and chimpanzees.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Things change as they are discovered.

You have to let go of something. And usually it's the thing that you're doing well at that moment. It's a courageous step into the unknown.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Maybe your situation is going to change when you change.

God is a progressive God. He wants every generation to increase.

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In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine ' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce.

All lost, because one of the galaxy's many life forms saw all the others as resources to be consumed. It was an attitude all life began with. Some grew out of it.

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

I have no use for before and after pictures. I can't remember starting, and I am never done.

It turns out that sometimes the future actually belongs to someone else.

Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.

When we die, we come bac different. Like, with greener eyes, or as some far off star.

I'm tired of being a dinosaur. Let's be meteors.