Quotes About Evolution

mayor inhibidor del cambio se encuentra dentro de uno mismo, y que nada puede mejorar mientras no cambie uno mismo.

porque una organización sólo puede cambiar cuando hay en ella suficientes personas dispuestas a cambiar.

Advirtió que la manera más rápida de cambiar es reírse de la propia estupidez. Después de hacerlo, uno ya es libre y puede seguir avanzando.

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.

Anyhow, the criterion of common sense was never applicable to the history of the human race. Averroës, Kant, Socrates, Newton, Voltaire, could any of them have believed it possible that in the twentieth century the scourge of cities, the poisoner of lungs, the mass murderer and idol of millions would be a metal receptacle on wheels, and that people would actually prefer being crushed to death inside it during frantic weekends exoduses instead of staying, safe and sound, at home?

Czy je?eli ludo?erca je no?em i widelcem - to post?p?

A man can control only what he comprehends, and comprehend only what he is able to put into words. The inexpressible therefore is unknowable. By examining future stages in the evolution of language we come to learn what discoveries, changes and social revolutions the language will be capable, some day, of reflecting.

You can dig through public records and other documents to find out if a certain person had an Aryan grandmother, but there's no way to tell if that grandmother's Eocene ancestor was a sinanthropus or a pithecanthropus.

Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.

Put simply, unlike terrestrial organisms it did not adapt to its surroundings over the course of hundreds of millions of years, so as only then to produce a rational species, but it had gained control over its environment from the start.

Im wy?sza w galaktyce cywilizacja, tym wi?cej tam na?miecono.

The only way to deal with technology is with another technology. Man knows more about his dangerous tendencies than he did a hundred years ago, and in the next hundred years, his knowledge will be even more advanced. Then he will make use of it.

All the wild beasts have been extinct for years, but it's perfectly possible to synthesize them autobiogenically. On the other hand, why be bound to what was once produced by natural evolution? The spokesman for surrealist zoology was most eloquent - we should populate our preserves with bold, original conceptions, not slavish imitations, we should forge the New, not plagiarize the Old.

to Hogarth humanity is a hunchback who, in ignorance of the fact that it is possible not to be hunchbacked, for thousands of years has sought an indication of a Higher Necessity in his hump, because he will accept any theory but the one that says that his deformity is purely accidental, that no one bestowed it upon him as part of a master plan, that it serves absolutely no purpose, for the thing was determined by the twists and turns of anthropogenesis.

One has only to look through the history of science to reach the most probable conclusion: that the shape of things to come is determined by things we do not know today, and by what is unforeseeable.

And, as Albert Einstein pointed out, it is impossible to solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

If the above observations are correct, no external interventions have a chance to create a better world unless they are associated with a profound transformation of human beings.

Who we are takes generations to create and doesn't end with death.

The process of cultural change is a long and difficult one.

When we have a change of heart on the inside, it manifests itself on the outside.

Ebbene, la nostra forza è nel cambiamento, e anche nel cambiare quello che volevamo cambiare, e quindi cambiare il cambiamento.

L'uomo primitivo non conosceva il bar. Quando la mattina si alzava, nella sua caverna, egli avvertiva subito un forte desiderio di caffè. Ma il caffè non era ancora stato inventato e l'uomo primitivo aggrottava la fronte, assumendo la caratteristica espressione scimmiesca.

So che oggi non sono lo stesso uomo di allora, e non si guarisce dalla propria ombra, le si affiancano soltanto nuove luci.