Quotes About Evolution

We had no clue that we were embarking on careers that would vanish within a decade.

I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage.

The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they're too lazy or stupid to pull off a switch.

I was rotten.

We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time.

Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.

De la misma manera que algunas mujeres cambian de aspecto regularmente, yo cambio de personalidad. ¿Qué personaje me sienta bien, cuál es el más deseado, cuál se pone de moda? Creo que la mayor parte de las personas hace lo mismo, simplemente no lo reconocen o en su defecto se afianzan en un solo personaje porque son demasiado perezosas o estúpidas para hacer el cambio.

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Even Brownie had a comment, a small doggie whimper. She leaned against the outside of my right thigh. Yeah. I started scratching ears. Those beasts have selectively bred us for thousands of years.

All of the emotional signalling that animals use is still present in humans and registers importantly with us.

Things will never stay the same. The only one sure thing is change. That's why there's always tomorrow.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry

You're always the person you were when you were born, she says impatiently. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.

What was so wrong about the old me that now I have to be somebody else?

That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.

Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.

It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.

Soon he would move on.

Old and cherished ideas die hard.

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?