Quotes About Evolution

We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees.

In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

Ou is frequently used in the last syllable of words which in Latin end in or and are made English, as honour, labour, favour, from honor, labor, favor. Some late innovators have ejected the u, without considering that the last syllable gives the sound neither of or nor ur, but a sound between them, if not compounded of both; besides that they are probably derived to us from the French nouns in eur, as honeur, faveur.

This earl, like certain vegetables, did bud and open slowly; nature sometimes delighting to play an aftergame, as well as fortune, which had both their turns and tides in

El lenguaje es el arsenal de la mente humana: contiene al mismo tiempo los trofeos de su pasado y las armas de sus futuras conquistas.

Are the acidifying bacteria in milk or the yeasts in grape juice our servants, or are we doing their bidding by creating the specialized environments in which they can proliferate so wildly? We must stop thinking in such hierarchical terms and recognize that we, like all creation, are participants in infinite interrelated biological feedback loops, simultaneously unfolding a vast multiplicity of interdependent evolutionary narratives.

As a result of the War on Bacteria, our bacterial context is rapidly shifting. One bacterium formerly ubiquitous in humans, Helicobacter pylori, which resides in the stomach, is now found in fewer than 10 percent of American children and may be headed toward extinction.62 H. pylori has been associated with humans for at least 60,000 years, and there is evidence that closely related bacteria have lived in the stomachs of mammals since their emergence 150 million years ago.

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Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

Out of the pain, something new is growing.

Supongo que nuestra memoria es como una película de asesinos en serie. Cada giro de la historia cambia el sentido total. Miras atrás y los detalles antes relevantes ya no son los que creías.

was on its way.