Quotes About Evolution

Your children grow into adults, and they leave, and they make a life of their own. It's the way the world turns, he said.

The story of America is...one of slow, often unsteady steps forward. If we expect the trumpets of a given era to sound unwavering notes, we will be disappointed, for the past tells us that politics is an uneven symphony.

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening.

Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.

You're not doing a scientific paper; you're doing a journal, if you will, of one man finding his way through parallel worlds.

Eons ago, Homo sapiens were just as alert and aware as all other creatures, and for the same reason. They needed to be. Now we don't need to be - or do we, but just don't understand this anymore? Our sensory equipment and brains are still designed for this awareness. These instincts are still in each of us, just buried, maybe deeply buried. Connecting with bird language begins the process of unearthing them.

Just a few years ago, a graduate student at the University of California, Davis's Department of Ecology and Evolution determined that many species of birds, including juncos, finches, and warblers, have ventriloquial abilities. (Her research focused on a yellow-rumped warbler and a stuffed owl.) Other studies followed, all demonstrating that birds can adjust their "acoustic directionality" in order to beam their alarm calls in chosen directions.

Humanity has been taking off like a rocket since the 1700s, but we have not achieved a stable orbit in the heavens. And even if we did, no orbit is stable in the long run. Eventually gravity claims what is hers.

Yra laik?, ir mano nuomone, mes dabar esam tokiuos laikuos, kai konservatiškumas, "atsilikimas" yra kur kas pažangiau, kur kas avangardiškiau, negu bet kokie viešai pripažinti "pažang?s" jud?jimai ar reiškiniai.

Menas žmones ?skiepina. Jis juos pakei?ia, meno skiepais, iš šunobelies ? obel?.

It's not actually the startups that are disrupting your organization, it's your customers' expectations

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

I do think everyone would be a lot happier if we laid eggs on our own and could just have friendship and didn't need to mount and penetrate one another.

The problem in our relationship with animals is that our treatment of them hasn't evolved to keep up with our knowledge.

In exchange for the male being the ultimate couch potato, the female never has to wonder where her mate is on a Saturday evening. It turns out that some males do indeed amount to little more than an appendage.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a question that Darwin found compelling: if God had created all the creatures of the world, what possible reason could there be for the variations found in the Galápagos?

In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on his father's or mother's side. Huxley retorted that he would rather have simian relatives than claim kinship with a man who used his charisma and authority to quash free debate.

the artist's job is not to get locked into any period

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee.

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you. But if you think about moral reasoning as a skill we humans evolved to further our social agendas—to justify our own actions and to defend the teams we belong to—then things will make a lot more sense.