Quotes About Evolution

It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.

Since the release of 'The Witch,' I'm actually much more warm towards bad horror movies than I was making 'The Witch.'

Now it comes to this stage of my career when I get to play the wicked witch all the time. You know you start off with Cinderella and then you end up playing the stepmothers.

If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

I had - and continued to have - great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me that I wanted to write other kinds of books, even within what might be termed the fairly narrow overlapping genre categories of hard SF and space opera.

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

Coldplay doesn't have to stay within a certain genre; they just go where they go.

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.

My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.

Strictly' has evolved - there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We're not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it's an entertainment show.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.