Quotes About Evolution

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

IN ORDER TO REMAIN UNCHANGED, THE SYSTEM MUST CHANGE Specifically,

AS SYSTEMS GROW IN SIZE AND COMPLEXITY, THEY TEND TO LOSE BASIC FUNCTIONS

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE EVOLVED FROM A SIMPLE SYSTEM THAT WORKED. A

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us...

suggest, animals have a way of adapting, if not evolving, under different environmental circumstances.

If nothing ended, then we'd all be stuck in the middle.

Anyone who knows anything knows that almost nothing ever ends, and when it does, it rarely ever does so well.

And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, at rest.

And what's a buterfly? At best, He's but a ceterpillar, drest.

De acuerdo con las reglas usuales de la biología, los seres humanos también deberíamos ser clasificados como chimpancés (Pan sapiens), y es solo nuestra inclinación natural a vernos como algo especial la que nos lleva a clasificarnos como un género distinto, el Homo.

Bob Dylan sang, "He not busy being born is busy dying.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes.

Perpetual novelty is the hallmark of 'cas'.

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination." "O futuro não é um lugar para onde estamos indo, mas um lugar que estamos criando. O caminho para ele não é encontrado, mas construído e o ato de fazê-lo muda tanto o realizador quanto o destino.

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let's take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself — at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

The possibilities of Evolution as an alternative religion were similarly perceived by a later popularizer, Wilhelm Bölsche, who spoke of the scientific movement as having effected a "Second Reformation." There had been an Old and a New Testament; now there was a third, the testament of science, which transcended both.

In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.