Quotes About Evolution

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever the same. The options are endless.

I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.

Work, as a distinct category of life, likewise did not exist until agriculture.

As pressures build for life to become more quantified and machine-like, so does the drive to make machines more life-like.

Artificiality and work have steadily increased since its inception and are known as culture: in domesticating animals and plants man necessarily domesticated himself.

The amount of work per capita increases with the evolution of culture and the amount of leisure per capita decreases.

We now know that human intelligence a million years ago was equal to what it is today.

How can you help resenting the absurdity of time, its march into the future, and all the nonsense about evolution and progress? Why go forward, why live in time.

So, could the solution to the mystery of how birds find their way around the globe lead to a revolution in biology? The

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.

I can tell you the exact day I stopped being fearless.

She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off of someone.

It was as if a light had gone on: the only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.