Quotes About Evolution

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Alle waarheid deed pijn, maar wel steeds meer, elk jaar een beetje meer.

in the process gently reminding the scientific community that it has a bad habit of dismissing what it can't explain instead of evolving better theories.

Seen from this perspective, our unstable environment is the essential wellspring of human evolution and change, and the more serious our environmental problems become, the more creatively we are responding to the challenge.

Grace, combined with insight and choice, is the means of change."32

Just as a good chief executive officer keeps looking for ways to change because he or she knows that nothing will be the same in five years, so you, too, as the chief executive officer of your own life, must always be looking for better ways to make changes. You must be flexible enough to get around the new obstacles that are looming on the horizon, and you must be willing to change course if you have to.

Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book ' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

I do believe that humans are destined to be released for a more ennobling life

It's not necessarily that we were wrong then and right now. It's just that our knowledge is constantly growing, and along the way we sometimes have to unlearn what we thought was true.

Believe me, most people resist change, even when it promises to be for the better. But change will come, and if you acknowledge this simple but indisputable fact of life, and understand that you must adjust to all change, then you will have a head start.

Imagine an external intelligence studying the methods by which earth-born creatures of various types adjust themselves to future circumstances. The most primitive method is, I suppose, no more than simple nervous reaction. The most developed method involves reasoned expectation. And between these two extremes our supposed observer would see a long series of intermediate forms melting into one another by insensible gradation.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

When he fell behind as an innovator, he reinvented himself as an instructor.

Even better, research shows that we tend to see important past events—even undesirable ones at the time—as net positives over time.

See yourself relaxing in your humility, being yourself—and thus ready to jump to the second curve. But you still do have to jump.

Psychologists have a special word for uncomfortable life transitions: "liminality."[3] It means the time between work roles, organizations, career paths, and relationship stages.

Psychologists have a special word for uncomfortable life transitions: "liminality."[3] It means the time between work roles, organizations, career paths, and relationship stages. The author Bruce Feiler wrote a popular book in 2020 on liminality called Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age.[4]

Luther successfully jumped onto his second curve after he stopped adding and started chipping away. As he succinctly puts it, "I am loving my life.

In your next phase of life . . . What activities will you keep? What activities will you evolve and do differently? What activities will you let go of? What new activities will you learn? And to start . . . What will you commit to doing in the next week to evolve into the new you? What will you commit to doing in the next month? What will you commit to doing within six months? In a year, what will be the first fruits to appear as a result of your commitments?

As we age, we shouldn't accumulate more to represent ourselves but rather strip things away to find our true selves—and thus, to find our second curve.