Quotes About Evolution

The principles that explain why some genes are transmitted more successfully than others also explain why some beliefs are transmitted more successfully than others.

Things will have to change. And one of those things that will have to change: People will have to change their internal world." On

What keeps me going when I think of ex-friends is that we're all really going through several lifetimes, often at the same time, all with different people; that we draw towards and push away from each other when we have to, like fucking quarks and particles, and sometimes that drawing and the pushing heals, and sometimes it just hurts.

It was as if single nights had the duration of centuries, so within that time the most profound alterations in the whole of mankind, in the earth itself and the whole solar system could very well have taken place.

Se oggi l'uomo non mangia più l'uomo, è unicamente perché la cucina ha fatto dei progressi!

Éramos su cuentista, nos hemos convertido en su contable.

A nascere sono buoni tutti.. Persino io sono nato! Ma poi bisogna divenire! DIVENIRE! Crescere, aumentare, svilupparsi, ingrossare... (senza gonfiare) accettare mutamenti (ma non mutazioni), maturare (senza avvizzire), evolvere (e valutare), progredire (senza rimbambire), durare (senza vegetare), invecchiare (senza troppo ringiovanire) e morire senza protestare

Le lingue evolvono nel senso della pigrizia.

Perché le parole hanno una storia, mica ci cadono dalla bocca come un uovo di giornata! Le parole evolvono, le loro vite sono imprevedibili quanto le nostre.

Of course, an unchanged mind is a little like unchanged underwear. It tends to get unattractive even to the person whose mind or underwear it is.

In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.

Next time you're overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn't completely foreign. This isn't square one. Things are different, but they're still a little the same.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

La imperfección de la ciencia es la clave de su progreso. Sin lugar para nuevas ideas, la ciencia de hoy sería la misma que la ciencia de ayer.

Los sabios de la antigüedad, que muchas veces se citan para apoyar alguna idea, eran sabios en su época, pero no en la nuestra.

I think I liked you better when you were a contract killer.

It's hard to go old-school in the modern world. Gabriel Allon

Change is good, Nouredine. It keeps everyone on their toes. – Christopher Keller

Language evolves in such a way that sounds correspond with … the personal, intuitive experience of the listener.

Change appears to us mysterious because it is invisible. It is impossible to see a tree grow tall or a man grow old, except with the precarious imagination of hindsight. A tree is small, and later it is tall. A man is young, and later he is old. A people are at peace, and later they are at war. In each case, the intermediate states are at once infinitely many and infinitely complex, which is why they exceed our finite perceptions.

Have you noticed how normally this line is moving?