Quotes About Evolution

There is no such thing as maintenance. If you're not trying to get better, you're getting worse.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

newfound power leads to new perspective

While you slept, the world changed

I am now me more than I ever was. (A Christmas Outing)

Maybe we're just prisoners of our biology.

But you couldn't live forever in crisis mode. Eventually it stopped feeling like a crisis.

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

This is our condition. We do not solve problems. We replace them with other problems.

The higher the levels of anxiety, the more likely a person is to have a high IQ. Genetic research suggests that intelligence may have co-evolved with worry in humans

Applying inflexible rules to a constantly shifting political landscape destroys societies. Communism was like that. In free societies, people change, culture changes, the world beyond a nation's borders does not stand still. So a politician will find that what worked a decade or a century ago does not work now. In politics it is easy to get it wrong, hard to get it right.

Yet Darwin knew that altruism was admired in every human society of which he was aware. Even animals take risks for the sake of the group. The one that emits a cry to warn of the presence of a predator helps the group escape while making its own detection more likely. In the language of today: how could selfish genes come together and produce selfless people?

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

All billions-of-years views place death before sin. It's hard to overstate the importance of this. These views teach that almost as soon as living things arose, they also died. However, the first recorded death of a biblically living creature (Hebrew nephesh chayy?h64) occurred after Adam and Eve sinned, when

It was a time of beginnings and a time of endings.

In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravitate more toward the subtle and refined. Okay, with the occasional feathered serpent thrown in.

Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

The future just isn't what it used to be

The point is, people become possessive of their grief, almost proud of it. They want to believe it's like no one else's. But it is. It's exactly like everybody else's. Grief is like a shark. It's been around forever, and in that time there's been just about no evolution. You know why?" "Why?" "Because it's perfect just the way it is.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Although the spoken word is over six million years old

I remembered Fitzgerald's famous dictum "All life is a process of breaking down," and I had to disagree. Or at least I didn't think it held true for every life.