Quotes About Evolution

I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they can change their colours.

I realized that from now on, my mom's life and mine would have to be completely, unmistakably different. Nothing about us was the same: the times we lived in, the ways we regarded the world, the things we valued.

no es que nuestro tiempo se haya detenido. Las cosas van experimentando un cambio constante aunque éste sea tan lento que apenas se perciba.

Pero si él pudiera acostumbrarse al hecho de que todos los días son una absurda repetición del anterior, a estar siempre con la misma persona, a la idea de que únicamente el vuelo de un pequeño corazón puede colorear el mundo..., si fuera capaz, entonces, quizás, algo podría ir cambiando, poco a poco.

Did anyone ever imagine, back in the old days, that eventually a day would come when people and their brains would each die a separate death?

We created something a little closer to perfection than ourselves; maybe that's the only way to progress. Let them try to do the same.

That is the way with all of your kind… It is how you are made; you must all strive to claw your way over the backs of your fellow humans during the short time you are permitted in the universe, breeding when you can, so that the strongest strain survive and the weakest die. I would no more blame you for that than I would try to convert some non-sentient carnivore to vegetarianism. You are all on your own side.

There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.

The Idirans themselves had evolved on their planet Idir as the top monster from a whole planetful of monsters.

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

Three months is a lifetime in politics

I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

Something ordinary in the past becomes valuable in the future

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

People heal, sweetheart. We feel things, and then feelings change. People change. All the time.

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, . . . . Look at what you have now.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change.

My writing style has changed dramatically over the years, growing increasingly clean and exact. I like to think that I'm still improving -- that each book I write is a new personal best.

When the dust settled, they talked reasonably about the inevitability of change, the idea that they had to let go what might have been and accept what was.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, Leo. Look at what you have now.