Quotes About Evolution

Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib." To combat the

Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib." To combat the inertia, he decided they should go up against the resistance directly—"hit it hard," Thomas said.

Nothing that takes off becomes quite what the creator wants it to be. Like a child, it grows, not always in the expected direction.

All we ask is to be allowed to remain writers of our own story. That story is ever changing. Over the course of our lives, we may encounter unimaginable difficulties. Our concerns and desires may shift. But whatever happens, we want to retrain the freedom to shape our lives in ways consistent with our character and loyalties.

As recently as 1945, most deaths occurred in the home. By the 1980s, just 17 percent did.

doctors can be stubborn about changing the way we do things.

This has never been a problem before," people say. Until one day it is.

but the redness became virtually unnoticeable.

perfect their skills, and move on to a better position.

much about it. When

First drafts always fall apart, he said, and one needs to study how, make changes, and keep testing until the checklist works consistently

places do not change so much as what we seek in them

And if we do not grow with our children, they cannot learn.

The important thing to realize is the males in most species will breed with any female who stays still long enough. It's the females who are selective. What they desire has a huge effect. If all the female walruses got together one day to decide they wanted polka dots, within a few generations the males would have polka dots. The female's wish made physical on the male's body.

My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.

It seems like maybe we tried to sleep normally a long time ago, when Bentley was a puppy. But then he gradually moved from his little bed to the floor next to our bed. And then from the floor to the foot of the bed. And then from the foot to next to me. And now from next to me to between us, under the covers, with his head on a pillow next to ours.

Didn't every new thing you did become a part of you, one of your bricks?

When you're busy, you lack the time to fondle your emotional baggage. And if that sounds too reductive, remember we crawled from the swamp. Simple isn't such a terrible thing to be in this respect.

My youth is gone, but something far better has taken its place.

While there is wisdom in refraining from implementing change merely for the sake of change, clinging to old ways solely for the sake of their antiquity is obviously equally futile.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Time marches on

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.