Quotes About Evolution

The practice seeks to make change, but the process demands originality. The practice is consistent, but only in intention, not in execution.

Everything in our culture is part of a hierarchy between yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We don't get to jump all the way ahead.

Things that grow don't grow forever—but that's okay, because the experiences we collect stick with us, and we get to take those experiences wherever we go.

Shipping an idea went from taking a month by boat to a few days by plane to overnight by Federal Express to a few minutes by fax to a moment by e-mail to instantaneous by Twitter. Now what? Will it arrive yesterday? So, what's left is to make—to give—art. What's left is the generosity and humanity worth paying for. What's left is to take that resistance (the very same resistance we embraced and rewarded for decades) and destroy it.

There's a gap in the market where your version of better can make a welcome change happen.

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Ninic nu este static. Nimic nu r?mâne cum a fost. Tot ceea ce construieÈ™ti, proiectezi sau comercializezi urmeaz? s? schimbe piaÈ›a.

It's hard to get blocked when you are moving, even if you're not moving in the direction you had in mind that morning

Universities no longer spend as much time bragging about the size of their libraries. The

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.

The significance of a bit depends not just on its value but on how that value affects other bits over time, as part of the continued information processing that makes up the dynamical evolution of the universe.

Moore's law is a law not of nature, but of human ingenuity.

The computational universe is not an alternative to the physical universe. The universe that evolves by processing information and the universe that evolves by the laws of physics are one and the same. The two descriptions, computational and physical, are complementary ways of capturing the same phenomena.

Walking gets too boring when you learn how to fly.

Suddenly, I'm lighter, only half of who I was.

The instinct for profit, thought Jela—personal profit. That instinct was maybe not a long-term survival trait.

She would change, but she would remember. That was—growth. Growth was key to continued existence.

far as to say that white-skinned people are actually black-skinned mutants who lost the ability to produce significant amounts of eumelanin. Redheads, with their characteristic milky white skin and freckles, may be a further mutation along the same lines. In order to survive in places with infrequent and weak sunlight, such as in parts of the U.K., they may have evolved in a way that almost completely knocked out their body's ability to produce eumelanin, the brown or black pigment.

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.

The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote that once in a lifetime hope and history can rhyme. Evolution is what happens when history and change are in rhyme.

Sharon Moalem

One species of lizard is born with a long tail and large body or a small tail and small body depending on one thing only—whether their mother smelled a lizard-eating snake while pregnant. When her babies are entering a snake-filled world, they are born with a long tail and big body, making them less likely to be snake food.