Quotes About Evolution

Anger is a good example of a negative emotion whose benefits have been diminishing in evolution.

Without new ideas success can become stale.

The tone of the repartee was familiar, as was the subject matter, a strangely comfortable background music to most of my waking hours over the last two decades or so - and I realised that, my God... I've been listening to the same conversation for twenty-five years!

The better question might be: Please tell me which of these scraps you would have been unable to use a few years ago—and exactly what do you have to do to them to make them what you would consider "safe"?

I believe that the human animal evolved as it did—with eyes in the front of its head, long legs, fingernails, eyeteeth—so that it could better chase down slower, stupider creatures, kill them, and eat them; that we are designed to find and eat meat—and only became better as a species when we learned to cook it.

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.

Every dogma has its day.

But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes.

It was like as though to get better I had had to get worse.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.

The war seems to have altered some people out of recognition and made others more than ever like themselves,' said Isobel.

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.

In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.

Everything alters, yet does remain the same. It might even improve matters.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what's known and what's secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what's not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are . . . a different game you should play. —YODA

The trouble is, the human brain isn't designed to make us happy and fulfilled. It's designed to make us survive. This two-million-year-old organ is always looking for what's wrong, for whatever can hurt us, so that we can either fight it or take flight from it. If you and I leave this ancient survival software to run the show, what chance do we have of enjoying life?

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

What is the one asset, the one benefit you have today over yesterday? The answer, of course, is experience.

El camino hacia el éxito está siempre en construcción. Es un proceso permanente y no una meta que se deba alcanzar.