Quotes About Evolution

Let the story do its work in you, and when it is done then you won't need the story anymore.

Thus, any change you achieve is inevitably accompanied by inner conflict.

Here is a mistake that most people make in their relationships with others. They try to build a steady nesting place in the ever-moving stream of life.

Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. Remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering.

Day after day, the tall Italian said, year after year, time wipes the old books from the world.

Sublimity," Hauptmann says, panting, "you know what that is, Pfennig?" He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling. Never has Werner seen him like this. "It's the instant when one thing is about to become something else. Day to night, caterpillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man.

You know how diamonds—how all crystals—grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too.

Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!" Dr. Geffard pronounces this almost gleefully and pours wine into his glass, and she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers.

Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!

Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!" Dr. Geffard pronounces

Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct

Consider a single piece glowing in your family's stove. See it, children? That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million . . .

A ciência, meu rapaz, é construída com erros, mas são erros úteis, porque levam, pouco a pouco, até à verdade.

Aethon: Lived 80 Years a Man, 1 Year a Donkey, 1 Year a Sea Bass, 1 Year a Crow.

We are the bridge generations, the intermediaries, the ones who do the work so that our descendants will be ready.

Casi todas las especies que han existido alguna vez se han extinguido en el presente. No hay ningún motivo para pensar que con la raza humana vaya a ocurrir algo distinto.

Every process must by law decay.

Though perhaps what has changed are the eyes that see it

Each time he returned, he looked slightly different, not merely older, but changed: a new accent, the cigarettes, three sharp knocks on the door. It was as if the city was entering his body and remaking it; he'd look at the low dark houses and wandering hens and farmers with their rope belts as if at film from another century.

What a thing, half bird, half lizard, part one thing, part another, trapped forever between more perfect states.

You're not defined by your past experiences. You're prepared by them.

Theories in the natural sciences which have been replaced by others which do the same job better are of no interest to the current practice of science. This cannot be the case where those theories have helped to constitute what they interpret or explicate. The

Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake.

Isn't that how marriage works? The days go by and you settle into a routine and piece by piece everything is taken away from you until there are two complete strangers sitting in the same room.