Quotes About Evolution

You know what's wrong with the world today, bro? The computers. They're ruining the human race." "Computers?" "You ever see elks mate?" Russell said.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Change Is for the Worse' should he ever find time to write it: Gold knew that the most advanced and penultimate stage of a civilization was attained when chaos masqueraded as order, and he knew we were already there.

You began in a sperm cell as a strand of DNA that still doesn't know who you are.

All change is for the worse.

American literary culture proved to be less like an explosion that went off with the Revolution than a tender plant that required over fifty years of cultivation before it blossomed.

The law of life is the law of growth;

Healing is due to a changed

For a real glimpse into an almost vanished world, one should look...at a scorpion who so obviously has no business lingering into the twentieth century. He is not shaped like a spider and he has too many legs to be an insect. Plainly, he is a discontinued model--still running but very difficult, one imagines, to get spare parts for.

As for this present unhappy time, haunted by ghosts from a dead world and not yet at home in its own, its predicament is not unlike the predicament of the adolescent who has not yet learned to orient himself without reference to the mythology amid which his childhood was passed.

streams do not make iteration obsolete

It is too early to say whether modules will achieve widespread use outside of the JDK itself. In the meantime, it seems best to avoid them unless you have a compelling need.

Congress was just a gray repository that got its OS replaced with each election.

Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different...

Nothing ever stays the same, whether it be poems or humans.

What we haven't imagined will one day spit us out magnificent and simple. -Fury of Rain

What we haven't imagined will one day spit us out magnificent and simple.

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

A female is essentially a cunt, the pure purpose of the female is cunt, but a woman, a wife, is a cunt with a mouth, a man has to reckon with. It's a sobering fact: you start off with a cunt, you wind up with mouth. You wind up with your widow-to-be.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many 'culturally-mandated' differences. In First World countries we've evolved beyond mere biology -it isn't the fate of the human female to be pregnant continously until she wears out and dies.

That sensation of things-falling-away. Once the ice begins to crack, it will happen swiftly.   She