Quotes About Evolution

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

Wayne Tell me, when the first show is over, will you still love me when I'm an incredibly humungoid giant star Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my hanging-out-with-Ravi-Shankar phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Okay, party. Bonus.

bears are getting smart. Evolution, right? If they get hungry enough, they knock on doors and wait for someone to come out on the porch. Then they attack,

They think that the past is dead. They don't see that the past is just the beginning of the future.

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski

My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

The way to becoming who you want to be is the way of destroying who you are.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

All of us identify who we are in contrast with who we are not, and the 'who we are not' changes all the time.

Life does not get better so long as we avoid the pain that spurs us to evolve. We do not develop emotionally, because we block out our feelings rather than bear them. We cannot become fluent in intimacy, because we keep ourselves hidden. We do not become confident, because we duck challenges rather than do the kind of work that instills self-worth. There are no shortcuts to life's bounty.

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

Men are wimps . Why do you think women have the babies?

In my opinion, we're here because we won the evolutionary lottery. We're here because as far as we know this is the only place we can be. "So, basically what your sayings is", Lizzy says ... "We're here because we're here?" "Precisely!" Dr. Grady says.

505If nothing ever changed, there'd be no such thing as butterflies.

One step toward defining anything is to determine what it is not. A popular approach to the word pornography is an appeal to its ancient Greek roots. This approach should be discarded. The word pornography originally meant "writing about harlots or prostitutes." But its meaning has evolved over centuries of use through dozens of different cultures. Like the Greek word gymnasium, which originally meant, "place of nakedness," the word pornography has lost its connection with the past.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Cambrian animals were not particularly large at first, but they were plentiful and innovative. Jaws appeared. Eyes appeared. Nature began experimenting with weaponry.

Nature does not know extinction, only transformation

Squiggly light bulbs and Priuses, whatever value they have, come out of the industrial mind. Ecological agriculture has the disciplines of ecology and evolutionary biology to call on, based on millions of years of emerging efficiencies such as those seen in nature's prairie ecosystems. The industrial sector has no such organizing discipline to call on.