Quotes About Evolution

One of the consequences of printing is that it tends to standardize language

New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.

Humans are the only mammals that consume milk past weaning, apparently in defiance of a basic rule of nature.

Circuit boards have foundations made of paper;

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.

Perhaps one of the hardest remedies to accept for our pain of becoming is that wherever we are in our path—no matter how flawed or incomplete—is a blossoming unto itself.

life becomes a living of who we are until that form of self can no longer hold us, and, like Taaora in his shell, we must break the forms that contain us in order to birth our way into the next self. This is how we shed our many ways of seeing the world, not that any are false, but that each serves its purpose for a time until we grow and they no longer serve us.

And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one.

Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That's how it works.

Staying the same isn't enough because yesterday's success can easily become tomorrow's mediocrity.

Mark Sanborn

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Like me, they were alive at the moment—today's samples from the current batch of Cro-Magnon man. There were almost five billion of us specimens alive that morning in 1982. We who were awake were a multitude trampling the continents for our day in the light—feeling our lives and stirring about, building a better world a jot, or not—and soon the continents would roll us under, and new sets of people would trample us.

Most humans who were ever alive lived inside a single culture that had not changed for hundreds of thousands of years.

We are civilized generation number 500 or so, counting from 10,000 years ago when we settled down. We are Homo sapiens generation number 7,500, counting from 150,000 years ago when our species presumably arose. And we are human generation number 125,000, counting from the earliest Homo species. Yet how can we see ourselves as only a short-term replacement cast for a long-running show, when a new batch of birds flies around singing, and new clouds move?

All right then. Pull yourself together. Is there where I'm spending my life, in the reptile brain, this lamp at the top of the spine like a lighthouse flipping mad beams indiscriminately into the darkness, into the furred thoraxes of moths, onto the backs of leaping fishes and the wrecks of schooners? Come up a level; surface.

Form follows function in the created world, so far as I know, and the creature that functions, however bizarre, survives to perpetuate its form.

Quand j'étais enfant, le luxe c'était pour moi les manteaux de fourrure et les villas au bord de la mer. Plus tard, j'ai cru que c'était de mener une vie d'intellectuel. Il me semble maintenant que c'est aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou une femme

Uno y otro deben estar aprendiendo hasta

El cambio de una persona pasa por el lenguaje. Aprendiendo a hablar de otra manera, nos hacemos de otra manera.