Quotes About Evolution

And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

If I want to do the same old thing, it's easy. If I want to do something altogether new, it becomes harder. I could go on writing the stories I've been writing during the last few years. They have a certain charm and they're true as far as they go. They're just not enough.

Revolution, and this is—

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

The mark was from the glue that once held a folder into which a library card would have fitted back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth and computers were the size of washing machines.

Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

According to this thing I saw on the internet, cats and dogs use expressions on us that they don't use on each other. This being on account of the fact that we effectively co-evolved together. So unless sheep are susceptible to a look of long-suffering patience, I'm going to say that the one Ziggy gave me was reserved for humans.

We used to wait for our electronics to warm up, now it's our software.

Perhaps, I thought, the dead god gets folded into the existence of the new god, the way a dormant genetic variation can exist within an organism's DNA—hanging about like an actor's understudy until the right environmental conditions give it expression and—hey presto—suddenly a bacteria is heat resistant, our Chloe gets her big break on Broadway and a sniper for hire gets an unexpected half a meter of cold steel through the chest. Perhaps

As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly, sucks to be you, quadruped.

The past will become the future. The future will become the past.

More and more rules were added until people tried to standardise spelling in the eighteenth century - by which time the language was already an unruly adolescent of 1300 years, throwing letters all over the place.

This is a thing that I'm sure is obvious to everyone else but is never-endingly astonishing to me: that every change, every life, consists of nothing but a series of days.

And I twisted it wrong just to make it right Had to leave myself behind

discovering you are not identical with yourself even in the most disturbing and painful way still contains the glimmer, however refracted, of the world to come, where everything is the same but a little different because the past will be citable in all of its moments, including those that from our present present happened but never occurred.

nothing in the world, I thought to myself, is as old as what was futuristic in the past.

It was no longer a little different from itself, no longer an emissary from a world to come.

Nietzsche called the ear "the organ of fear," and believed that the sense of hearing "could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life in the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has been: in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight.

Video killed the radio stars, and digital killed the old 'inkies'. (Ben Macintyre writing in The Times about the death of the New Musical Express (NME) in print.)

Some creatures have a low survival rate, and so the world produces far too many of them, and as they fight among each other to live they grow more savage, more base, more dull, and the winners, the survivors, are distinctly unappealing little beings.

The sun gets better at setting.

The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But don't worry girls, I hit him.