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Quotes About Evolution

Only those who continue to change remain my kin
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
How couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is important to accept that the world is not in any way striving toward a stable condition, equilibrium or eternal sunshine.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Evolution is no longer seen as a competitive struggle for existence, but rather as a cooperative dance in which creativity and the constant emergence of novelty are the driving forces. And with the new emphasis on complexity, networks, and patterns of organization, a new science of qualities is slowly emerging.
~ Fritjof Capra
Just as the decay of last year's fallen leaves provides nutrients for new growth this spring, some institutions must be allowed to decline and decay, so that their capital and human talents can be released and recycled to create new organizations.
~ Fritjof Capra
The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
There are fads ion science, just as there are fads in clothes
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said. 'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
La medianía fue neutral, luego positiva, después negativa y ahora tabú.
~ Gabriel Zaid
Now is when the point of the story changes.
~ Galway Kinnell
It's about what humans need to be happy. Sure, we evolved to live in complex interdependent social groups, but before that, we were nomads, pursuing resource opportunities in an open, sparsely populated landscape. That means for some people, solitude and independence are primary values.
~ Gardner Dozois
You have to change on the fly. You have to adapt. It's what I do. It's what wins for me.
~ Andre Ward
Evolutionary science kind of bears that out: When species are rivals and competing for space and resources, the superior one wins. Nature has no compunction about that; it just is.
~ Mark Pellegrino
As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.
~ Barry Trotz
We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people living in the northern hemisphere, however, suffer from lower levels of vitamin D during the fall, winter and spring.
~ Paul Stamets
I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
~ Richard Lewis
What I love most about makeup is that you can't get attached to one thing, one idea, or one approach - and once you've achieved perfection, you have to wipe it all off and start over the next day.
~ Pat McGrath
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.
~ Geoff Downes
Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.
~ Richard Preston
Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.
~ Seth Shostak