Quotes About Evolution

In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.

It doesn't matter that something you've done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.

Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Anne Tyler is a goddess. I've been reading her since I was at uni and she has only gotten better.

Achieving is the most important thing to you. It's more important than love, Bess said when she was fifteen years old. And wow—Ursula had felt that comment like a slap to the face. Bess has mellowed as she's gotten

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. She hangs it on

Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process.

He said you must always step forward from where you stand.

hundred years. The end of a place Shan had come

Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

Great poetry lives in a state of perpetual transformation, perpetual translation: the poem dies when it has no place to go.

A new line is a new mind.

The old ideas don't satisfy the new generation any longer, while the old generations are unable to accept and assimilate the new ideas.

To think about what is new, we cannot use old concepts— particularly not concepts that have been emptied of their meaning and their usefulness by the very assaults that brought about this break in human history. We cannot use concepts from Before, inherited from a world that exists no longer, to explore the After.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

Sugar historian Noel Deerr estimates that per capita sugar consumption was four pounds in 1700, eight pounds by 1729, twelve by 1789, the year of the French Revolution, and eighteen pounds by 1809.

Impatience and cutting corners: it's the primate way. It got us down out of the trees and up to the top of the evolutionary heap as a species, which is a lot more like a slippery, mud-slick game of King of the Hill with stabbing encouraged than any kind of tidy Victorian great chain of being or ladder of creation.

We eat our mates if we can catch them. Everybody's got some evolutionary baggage that winds up maladaptive in a sophont setting.- "Valuable protein resource." I shrugged. "And it's not as if your species is designed for coparenting.

Yes, surely that was a disruption. But it was not even remotely the whole story.

How did I ever live before I had an AI in my brain?

The sea never changes. And yet, it never stops changing.

I've got a head so full of dead people I suspect whoever I started off as should be counted as one of them.

How much of you has to die before you stop being you and become somebody else?