Quotes About Evolution

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

was all about adapting to the new technology on the market.

Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a mammal or to convert a fish into an amphibian. Microevolution looks at adaptations that concern the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest... The origin of species — Darwin's problem — remains unsolved.

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they simply would have said a faster horse. —attributed to Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company Your

Man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

It's not about where you are today; it's about where you're going to be. We have to remind ourselves: This is where I am, but it is not where I'm always going to be.

I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.

Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying—it seems they never die at all.

It took approximately seventy five years for the telephone to reach fifty million users, the radio thirty eight years, thirteen years for the television, four for the Internet, two for Facebook and only nineteen days, for Pokemon Go.

The reason men have nipples is because all embryos start off as females in the womb.

the idea of being a "published" author is an antiquated and virtually meaningless one.

Second General Rule of Thumb on Self Promotion Make your next book a better book.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

The revolution has to be customised

The big challenge is, we have to constrain and mold our ambition level without losing the spark. The stuff I lose sleep over nigh is, how are we doing on this? We want to make progress as fast as possible without exploiting human resources. How do you move faster without killing people? How do you build a community around the project without losing design integrity? And how do we get on an arc that moves from benign dictatorship to more small-group democracy?

Some social phobics find even positive attention to be aversive. Think of the young child who bursts into tears when guests sing "Happy Birthday" to her at a party—or of Elfriede Jelinek afraid to pick up her Nobel Prize. Social attention—even positive, supportive attention—activates the neurocircuitry of fear. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. Calling positive attention to yourself can incite jealousy or generate new rivalries.

species that "fear rightly" increase their chances of survival. We anxious people are less likely to remove ourselves from the gene pool by, say, frolicking on the edge of cliffs or becoming fighter pilots.

It was an old soul in a new shell.

Life is the pursuit of eternally broadening context.

Reason is a makeshift thing, at best. We have used it but a scant half-million years; our instincts reach back to the days when we crawled in primeval ooze. Trust instinct.

Evolution of form is very much a matter of teaching very old genes new tricks!

As delightful as the Just So explanations are of how spots, stripes, humps and horns came to be, biology can now tell us stories about butterflies, zebras and leopards that I contend are every bit as enchanting as Kipling's fairy tales. What's more, they offer some simple, elegant truths that deepen our understanding of all animal forms, including ourselves.

Darwin's great advantage over Paley and other thinkers of his generation was his grasp of the immensity of time. His