Quotes About Evolution

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

You used to get it in your fishnets Now you only get it in your nightdress Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness... ...Remeber when the boys were all electric?

brought other changes, too, and his people had

You can never go back, really, there is only forward.

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

History is subject to geology.

One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change.

Today things are better than yesterday.

Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed. Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form, and there it stopped.

Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.

Change in all things is sweet.

Conservatives of yesterday seem moderate or liberal to us today.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others.

The distinction between artefact and organism dissolved in a Petri dish.

When, therefore, we ask what ageing is for we must give the peculiar answer that it isn't for anything; it is, instead, the evolved consequence of there being no reason to stay alive.

the ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.

Groups must balance the need to enforce norms with the need to adapt. If the group is unable to enforce social norms, then there will be too much cheating, and cooperation will break down. However, if the group is too rigid in its social norms, then it will fail to adapt to new circumstances.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I felt that there were no magazines or books around in the Stone Age, and yet every schmuck took care of babies back then, so how wrong could you go? As long as you love the baby, you figure it out, just like with everything you love doing.

We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.