Quotes About Evolution

Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in some extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality

La storia di tutte le maggiori civiltà galattiche tende ad attraversare tre fasi distinte ben riconoscibili, ovvero le fasi della Sopravvivenza, della Riflessione e della Decadenza, altrimenti dette fasi del Come, del Perché e del Dove. La prima fase, per esempio, è caratterizzata dalla domanda 'Come facciamo a procurarci da mangiare?', la seconda dalla domanda 'Perché mangiamo?' e la terza dalla domanda 'In quale ristorante pranziamo oggi?

And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' 'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own argument, you don't. QED.' 'Oh, dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and he promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da Interrogação e a da Sofisticação, também conhecidas pelas fases Como, Porquê e Onde. Por exemplo, a primeira fase é caracterizada pela pergunta Como vamos comer?, a segunda pela pergunta Por que comemos? e a terceira pela pergunta Onde vamos almoçar?.

Rome wasn't burned in a day.

For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive—you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.

Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the processes of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does. The easiest way to fool a completely logical robot is to feed it the same stimulus sequence over and over again so it gets locked in a loop.

La historia de todas las civilizaciones importantes de la Galaxia tiende a pasar por tres etapas diferentes y reconocibles, las de Supervivencia, Indagación y Refinamiento, también conocidas por las fases del Cómo, del Por qué y del Dónde. »Por ejemplo, la primera fase se caracteriza por la pregunta: ¿Cómo podemos comer?; la segunda, por la pregunta: ¿Por qué comemos? y la tercera, por la pregunta: ¿Dónde vamos a almorzar?»

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this—"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question, "How can we eat?", the second by the question, "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question, "Where shall we have lunch?

McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger.

Evrim mi? dediler kendi kendilerine, Ne gereÄŸi var? ve daha büyük anatomik uygunsuzluklar?n? düzeltebilecek noktaya gelene kadar doÄŸan?n onlara vermeyi reddettiÄŸi ÅŸey olmadan da yaÅŸad?lar.

Rüyas?nda, gecenin geç bir saatinde DoÄŸu Yakas?ndaki nehrin k?y?s?nda yürüyordu ve nehir öyle acayip kirlenmiÅŸti ki, art?k suyun içinde bir sürü yeni canl? türü kendiliÄŸinden ortaya ç?k?yor, kendileri için devlet yard?m? ve oy hakk? talep ediyorlard?.

we haven't even finished burying the artificial dinosaur skeletons in the crust yet.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the tress had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

Mant?k belki iyi bir ÅŸeydi, ama evrim sürecinin de keÅŸfettiÄŸi gibi birtak?m sak?ncalar?n?n olduÄŸu da bir gerçekti. Mant?kl? düÅŸünebilen herhangi bir ÅŸeyin en az kendisi kadar mant?kl? düÅŸünebilen bir baÅŸka ÅŸey taraf?ndan kolayca aldat?labilmesi mümkündü.

I prigionieri erano legati alle sedie di Degustazione Poetica. I vogon non si facevano illusioni riguardo all'accoglienza che le loro opere ricevevano generalmente. All'inizio i loro tentativi di composizione poetica avevano fatto parte del generale tentativo minaccioso e violento di farsi accettare come razza normalmente evoluta e civile, ma adesso l'unica cosa che li induceva a insistere nelle loro creazioni era esclusivamente la loro crudeltà.

The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. 'For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?

They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked out at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just the continual wrenching of experience.