Quotes About Evolution

Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.

Time continued to move forward, each new moment falling into the future like a line of dominoes.

the tiger is a bellwether--one of thousands of similarly vulnerable species, which are, at once, casualties of our success and symbols of our failure. The current moment is proof of our struggle to evolve (perhaps "mature" is a better word) beyond outmoded fears and attitudes, to face the fact that nature is neither our enemy nor our slave.

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. —Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is the Message

But whence came the race of man? I will make a guess. A change of climate killed the great northern forests, Forcing the manlike apes down from their trees Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They had to go down to the earth, where green still grew And small meats might be gleaned. But there the great flesh-eaters, Tiger and panther and the horrible fumbling bear and endless wolf-packs made life A dream of death. Therefore man has those dreams, And kills out of pure terror.

When we look at nature, we are only looking at the survivors. STEPHEN BUDIANSKY, If a Lion Could Talk

She thought the old April might be struggling to get through the creature she had become.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Can we survive technology?

It is only proper to realize that language is largely a historical accident.

Natura non facis Saltus.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stiff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they have always been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Ya about the same time you grow a third set of teeth.

And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts'... I usually have trouble with that phrase.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

Knowledge only progresses by making mistakes as fast as possible.

the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

Se un libro cambia è soltanto perché siamo cambiati noi e lo affrontiamo in modo diverso.

Hij begreep dat hij in die toekomst zou veranderen, maar hij zag de toekomst zelf als het instrument van verandering en niet als het doel ervan.

He conceived himself changed in that future, but he saw the future itself as the instrument of change rather than its object.

Every day, and in every way, we're getting meta and meta.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.