Quotes About Evolution

What had happened to the girl from Bard? That strong, funny, sexy, smart, sure-of-herself person named Nicola? How could someone so dynamic have turned into a mouse? She was positive that if she ever met her old self, she'd be scared of her. But

I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same.

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.

I have always thought that Darwin was wrong: his theory doesn't account for all this variety of species. It hasn't the necessary multiplicity. Nowadays some people are fond of saying that at last evolution has produced a species that is able to understand the whole process which gave it birth. Now that you can't say. [Drury, Conversation with Wittgenstein, p174]

He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it

Una realtà non ci fu data e non c'è, dobbiamo farcela noi: non sarà mai una per tutti e per sempre ma di continuo e infinitamente mutabile.

So you think, do you, it is only houses that are built? I am continually building myself and building you, and you are doing the same, inversely.

Ma, perdiana!, la Natura ha faticato migliaja, migliaja e migliaja di secoli per salire questi cinque gradini, dal verme all'uomo; s'è dovuta evolvere, è vero? questa materia per raggiungere come forma e come sostanza questo quinto gradino, per diventare questa bestia che ruba, questa bestia che uccide, questa bestia bugiarda, ma che è pure capace di scrivere la Divina Commedia […].

In the end, life can be seen to be inconsequential, in the way that nothing matters on some vast evolutionary scale. But everything matters, and we know the most when life seems most horrific, when at each instant of time, all the space around us is everything there is.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed, "The more ingenious and accurate our instruments, the more unsusceptible and inexpert become our organs: by assembling a heap of machinery about us, we find afterwards none in ourselves.

We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.

I thought: Enh, they'll get used to it. Children grow up. Children leave.

Vigilance fled in old age and man was like the other animals then, who science said could not see themselves. Here man was fully animal again, but he was still tender... you never lost what you were, never lost it fully. There was always the suspicion of a past life that faded and returned.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

The future is fixed. The past ever-changing

In the digital age, don't forget to use your digits!

Then way I think of it is this: when you've done all the things worth doing, you're forced to start on the things that aren't.

The moment you step into a landscape it becomes another one.

None of us is anyone any more. We all lost who we were. But we can all be something else, and I will be so happy to fly this rocket anywhere you suggest, even though you and Irene called it Nova Swing, which is the cheapest name I ever heard.

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Another characteristic of human nature—perhaps the one that makes us most human—is our capacity to do the unnatural, to transcend and hence transform our own nature.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.