Quotes About Evolution

From an evolutionary perspective, exercise tricks the brain into trying to maintain itself for survival despite the hormonal cues that it is aging.

It's about growth versus decay, activity versus inactivity. The body was designed to be pushed, and in pushing our bodies we push our brains too. Learning and memory evolved in concert with the motor functions that allowed our ancestors to track down food, so as far as our brains are concerned, if we're not moving, there's no real need to learn anything.

Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don't recognize. And not all change is for the better.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime's view? It weighed on him.

After the Wall

Lo que era no es lo que soy, -se dijo, Y lo que soy no es aun lo que puedo ser

Hizo envolver el ramo con una cinta de raso negro y adjuntó una tarjeta que rezaba sólo: Todavía pienso en ti. Doctor S. Se había convertido en un hombre de muchas menos palabras, admitió para sí.

What I was, isn´t what I am. And what I am, isn´t yet what I can be.

Quiero seguir siendo como soy, no como era».

En pocas palabras, cada carta, un método de comunicación realmente antiguo en el mundo de los mensajes instantáneos, el correo electrónico, los SMS y los teléfonos móviles, estaba más pasada de moda que las señales de humo, las palomas mensajeras o el código Morse. Las cartas no contenían más que un mensaje sencillo y aparentemente elegido al azar.

Y cómo todos esos dolores acumulados habían evolucionado con los años hacia la locura.

Lo que era no es lo que soy —se dijo—. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.»

Los ejércitos se preparan para la última guerra que libraron, no para la que está por venir».

Lo que era no es lo que soy. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.

What I was, isn't what I am. And what I am, isn't yet what I can be.

Histories themselves become history before they reach the shelves.

The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be.

The leisure class has been replaced by another and much larger class to which work has none of the older connotation of pain, fatigue, or other mental or physical discomfort. We have failed to observe the emergence of this New Class, as it may be simply called.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.

SHALMANESER That real cool piece of hardware up at the GT tower. They say he's apt to evolve to true consciousness one day. Also they say he's as intelligent as a thousand of us put together, which isn't really saying much, because when you put a thousand of us together look how stupidly we behave.