Quotes About Evolution

A living being like you or me usually has two elements: a set of instructions that tell the system how to keep going and how to reproduce itself, and a mechanism to carry out the instructions.

We must not fear change. We need to make it work to our advantage.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. Stephen Hawking

in the last 10,000 years or so we have been in what might be called an external transmission phase. In this, the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has changed somewhat. But the external record—in books and other long-lasting forms of storage—has grown enormously.

Creo que los virus informáticos deberían ser considerados como vida. Quizás dice algo sobre la naturaleza humana que la única forma de vida que hemos sido capaces de crear hasta ahora sea puramente destructiva.

It is a matter of common experience that things get more disordered and chaotic with time.

Moore's Law, which says that their speed and complexity double every eighteen months.

En cierto modo, la especie humana necesita mejorar sus cualidades mentales y físicas para tratar con el mundo cada vez más complejo que lo rodea y afrontar nuevos desafíos como los viajes espaciales. Y también necesita aumentar su complejidad si los sistemas biológicos deben mantenerse por delante de los sistemas electrónicos. Por el momento, los ordenadores nos aventajan en velocidad, pero no muestran signos de inteligencia.

Extenderse al espacio tendrá un efecto aún mayor. Cambiará completamente el futuro de la especie humana, y tal vez determinará que tengamos o no algún futuro. No resolverá ninguno de nuestros problemas inmediatos en el planeta Tierra, pero nos proporcionará una nueva perspectiva sobre ellos y hará que miremos hacia fuera en lugar de hacia dentro. Con suerte, nos unirá para enfrentar el desafío común.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded

Uns bleibt keine Zeit, darauf zu warten, dass die darwinistische Evolution aus uns intelligentere und gutartige Wesen macht...Wir werden in der Lage sein, unsere DNA selbst zu verändern und zu verbessern.

A inteligência é a capacidade de se adaptar à mudança.

the darkness, however, there are quiet changes.

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?

Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size, and you are on the set of a science-fiction film...

Consider the magnitude of this... Taxonomists have described almost a million species of arthropods, and all fit into four major groups; one quarry in British Columbia, representing the first explosion of multicellular life, reveals more than twenty additional arthropod designs!

The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.

But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd?

If Ediacara survivors had been able to evolve internal complexity later on, then the pathways from this radically different starting point would have produced a world worthy of science fiction at its best.

Por qué el origen de la vida pluricelular se dio en forma de un corto pulso a través de tres faunas radicalmente diferentes , y no como un aumento lento y continuo de complejidad? La historia de la vida es infinitamente fascinante, infinitamente curiosa, pero ciertamente no es la sustancia de nuestros pensamientos y esperanzas usuales.