Quotes About Evolution

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Aria Crosses Over

We all have incidents in our past we're not proud of, and the goal is to learn from them and become better people.

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from 1956.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us.

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

The world is changing and you're only just becoming accustomed to it. You're changing, I suppose. You've changed since I've known you.' 'How?' 'You've come more alive.

No one's book is perfect.

One's aesthetic changes once one has a child.

Both moderns and postmoderns must be willing to try old things in new ways and new things in old ways.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.

Plans fall apart and time moves on.

Things never stay the same. That's just the way life is. I doesn't mean it's all bad. Change can be good. Even exciting!

Yet, as I will make clear, any Pleistocene woman who relied on looks alone to pull offspring through was not likely to be a mother very long or leave descendants.

Just because humans have become -advanced- enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evolutionary processes have ceased to operate.

Just because humans have become "advanced" enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evoutionary processes have ceased to operate.

After all, "the" human species is no more static than other species are. If our environment changes (or, more pertinent in the human case, as we transform our environment), we change with it.

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.