Quotes About Evolution

hold your success lightly—be ready to change as your abilities change. Even if your worldly prestige falls, lean into the changes.

To go from strength to strength requires learning a new set of life skills.

And what I have presented here shows that when it comes to faith, many people do change with age.

Allowing that change to happen and developing our inner life helps us get onto the second curve.

So what are you going to do about it? There are really only three doors you can go through here: 1. You can deny the facts and rage against decline—setting yourself up for frustration and disappointment. 2. You can shrug and give in to decline—and experience your aging as an unavoidable tragedy. 3. You can accept that what got you to this point won't work to get you into the future—that you need to build some new strengths and skills.

She doesn't live in the past. Many other stars have not fared so well.

But hold your success lightly—be ready to change as your abilities change. Even if your worldly prestige falls, lean into the changes.

These attachments must be chipped away to make it possible to jump onto the second curve.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Social media isn't as quaint as it was when I started my Livejournal back in high school.

I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

I was, at one point of time, known as the mast-mast girl, and though I must admit it's something I had no qualms with, I've moved on now.

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

When I was younger it was a lot of quantity over quality. Just writing, writing, writing. Hundreds of songs. Now it's fewer songs. If I write 10 songs I believe 80 percent of them are good and gonna be used.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.

The Sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. There have been a quarter of a million reversals since our predecessor, Homo Habilis, emerged, and they haven't killed us yet.

For me, as a pocket quarterback, there wasn't much adjustment as I got older.

The NFL is changing a little bit. The prototypical quarterback seems to be a little bit more mobile now. At the same time, if you can't throw the ball with the best of them, then you won't get an opportunity.