Quotes About Evolution

I wonder how many species break their planets getting off them.

Even races as belligerent as my own had come around eventually.

The world had moved on without them. She would not play the game of memory.

He looks nothing like he did. But he is still ruined and still beautiful.

There was no grand design behind any of it: just a series of fumbling attempts to do something.

We learn to let go of our former selves, if we are to live in the world forever. Or we burn.

We used to call ourselves Team Zed. It sort of fell out of use after we had built up a decan of better reasons to feel like a family, but it still gets a wink and a grin every once in a while.

We eat our mates if we can catch them. Everybody's got some evolutionary baggage that winds up maladaptive in a sophont setting.

One of the things I'd noticed was that, in addition to all my weird new secondary senses relating to gravity and mass and so forth, my eyes were becoming better adopted to seeing under a variety of light conditions.

In the course of a long unlife, borders might cross as often as one crossed borders.

People like Farweather, unconstrained, create conditions so awful that people eventually decided to change themselves rather than keep living-than way.

She was continuing to develop and evolve. All she had ever needed was the resources to enrich herself, and the space in which to grow. She was so brave and so slight-and, okay, so glittery-that my eyes stung a little from looking at her.

We do not always do what we are built for.

He remembered hard hands turned generous, and shuddered.

We didn't build House. We just adaptd it, learned how to program it.

We didn't build House. We just adapted it, learned how to program it.

Makes of men date, like makes of cars...

Some of my ideas get enlarged almost before I have them.

There can occur in lives a subsidence under the soil, so that, without the surface having been visibly broken, gradients alter, uprights cant a little out of the straight.

As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

We are both what time has wrought of us

Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.

Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.