Quotes About Evolution

and P.L.O. Guy (whose initials were okay for then but mean something entirely different now).

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.

Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.

Just as personal digital technologies have caused economic, social and scientific revolutions unimagined when we had our first few computers, we must expect and prepare for similar changes as we move forward from our first few genomes. —George Church1

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

In the life cycle of a theory, it starts off simple and then gets fancier and fancier, as brainy thinkers mount objections and the theory's proponents develop more subtle, complex, and well-defended theory to stave them off. Then it dies. Actually, before it dies, it lives in a special preserve for theories too complicated to survive in the wild, called a university.

we exist today because this is how our ancestors behaved. We evolve today by ensuring that our definition of "our group" is wide enough to take advantage of diversity and narrow enough to be actionable.

Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

he could hardly recognize it as something that had grown out of what he had begun.

as I do now. . . . Since

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Failure is a prerequisite to learning.

if you are asking, you're not there yet.

Paradoxalmente, quando a busca por perfeição é substituída pela disposição de experimentar e adaptar a ideia original, o resultado final é um produto mais perfeito.

This is also common with pivots; it is not necessary to throw out everything that came before and start over. Instead, it's about repurposing what has been built and what has been learned to find a more positive direction.

This line of thought evolved into the Lean

Failure is a prerequisite to learning. The

A pivot requires that we keep one foot rooted in what we've learned so far, while making a fundamental change in strategy in order to seek even greater validated learning. In

The more money, time, and creative energy that has been sunk into an idea, the harder it is to pivot.

Every setback is an opportunity for learning.

do any of us feel that the world around us is getting more and more stable every day?