Quotes About Evolution

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.

La vida es una cuestión de giros. O al menos así es como los llamo yo. Un giro es una sorpresa. Como si te agarrasen de los hombros por detrás y te obligaran por la fuerza a girar, a volverte

Ten years from now, her mother might not even recognize her. Already she was different, but the day would come when she'd be this person her mother had never seen. There would be other people - someone like Carolyn or Alan, or even Violet - who had known her longer than her mother ever did.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.

We learn as we go, not as we sit idly by and do nothing.

Sunt dou? feluri de durere: durerea de a merge mai departe, sau durerea de a r?mâne acolo unde suntem.

We all need to realize that we're on a journey, and we are making progress.

SER TRANSFORMADOS MEDIANTE

We are transitioning from a hominid that is conscious of its environment into one that drastically shapes its own evolution.

if Darwin were alive today, he would likely revise a significant part of his great works, because the basic logic of evolution has shifted away from capital-n Nature toward two new core drivers: Unnatural selection* Nonrandom mutation*

Recent studies suggest we are already in a period of extreme disequilibrium. Over the past 10,000 years human evolution has occurred 10-100x faster than at any other time in our species history.121

We are in an age of exponentially changing technologies. Ergo, we are in an age of exponentially changing ethics.

some core ethical-spiritual notions are passed on, evolve, and are repackaged and transmuted. Gradually a series of legitimate core concepts spread globally. So we see a gradual convergence on a set of principles common to major religions, and common to nonbelievers.

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.

When they'd met, Anakin had been a warmhearted nine-year-old boy with an open nature. He was twelve and a half now, and the years had changed him. He had grown to be a boy who hid his heart.

Humans aren't meant to look back. Or else we'd be able to turn our heads in a 180, just like an owl.

Materie ist immer etwas zur Materie Gewordenes.

Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order

It's funny how you can grow away from your friends, when just a few years ago they were the most important people in your life.

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

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