Quotes About Evolution

Many bees evolved longer and longer tongues to make it easier for them to reach nectar hidden within flowers; some now have tongues longer than their bodies.fn1

Thus, some individuals may skip certain stages, or blend them, or pass through them so fleetingly that they do not even acknowledge their presence.

In only 8 to 12 weeks, a newly hatched duckling is transformed into a young adult.

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

strange evolution, that people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

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Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve in order to understand itself. The complex organization of the brain evolved as a consequence of our sensorial and muscled engagement with the landscapes that surround us.

I said, 'Do you know what shoulder blades are for?' She giggled. 'Do you not even know that?' she said. 'Do you?' 'It's a proven fact, common knowledge. They're where your wings were, and where they'll grow again.

Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

He said we had become redundant to ourselves

Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

We must build bridges to the future, not the past.