Quotes About Evolution

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.

Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.

There are some things no one can bear. I meddled in all the possible futures I could create until, finally, they created me.

He found that he no longer could hate the Bene Gesserit or the Emperor or even the Harkonnens. They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle and infuse their bloodlines in a great new pooling of genes. And the race knew only one sure way for this—the ancient way, the tried and certain way that rolled over everything in its path: jihad. Surely

Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity.

From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal population, and profoundly sensitive to the density of numbers within a given habitat. Our adaptations aim to increase the population tolerance, to permit a human density ten to twelve times greater than is currently considered possible. Out of this, we will get our survival variations.

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We

Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.

The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.

Just as individuals are born, mature, breed, and die, so do societies and civilizations and governments.

Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu.

off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers—and

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

That which makes a man superhuman is terrifying.

Persoana capabil? s? ia un lucru banal È™i obiÈ™nuit pentru a-l prezenta într-o nou? lumin? are darul de a însp?imânta. Nu vrem ca ideile noastre s? fie schimbate. Ne simÈ›im ameninÈ›aÈ›i de asemenea tentative. ?tiu deja tot ce-i important de È™tiut! spunem noi. Apoi apare Schimb?torul È™i r?stoarn? toate vechile noastre idei.

Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order. And how does that help us against these disorderly women who hunt us? What branch of evolution are they? Is evolution just another name for God?

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

Law must retain useful ways to break with traditional forms because nothing is more certain than that the forms of Law remain when all justice is gone. — Gowachin aphorism

Our gods should mature as we mature.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

So you're not a child," Jessica said. "I'm millions of years old. That requires adjustments which humans have never before been called upon to make.

Women learned it at the hands of men; now men learn it at the hands of women.