Quotes About Evolution

The fact that data is always evolving is a good thing. It means that science is continuing, and we are always learning.

I've got bad and good things, but I'm never going to change.

One of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and your evolution as an artist. That's what's most important to me.

I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.

We are created by being destroyed.

Instead of a single, monolithic system that tried to do everything, Turbulence consisted of nine smaller systems. In part, the various systems served as backups or alternative approaches, in case the others failed or the global technology shifted.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

Une signature finit toujours par muter, elle absorbe la personnalité de l'auteur, elle se penche, elle se déforme, elle se contracte.

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong again and again - the reason being they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer.... Darwin forgot the mind (- that in English): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind one must need mind - one loses it when one no longer needs it. He who possesses strength divests himself of mind.

Men talk much of a new birth. The fact is fundamental. But the mistake is in treating it as an incident which can only happen to a man once in a lifetime: whereas the whole journey of life is a succession of them. A new life springs up in the soul with the discovery of every new agency by which the soul is raised to a higher level of wisdom: goodness and joy.

In what new skin will the old snake come forth?

It takes chaos to give birth to a dancing star

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

The only thing that went wrong was the human race itself.

If one does all these things to a human being, what is left is no longer precisely a human being. It is a man plus large elements of hardware. The man has become a cybernetic organism: a cyborg.

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.