Quotes About Evolution

The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Failure is just learning. It's just a perspective. Failure is the first part of learning and the process you go through to figure things out.

Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace that it has far outrun and outstripped the natural processes of change and adaptation. This

Fourteen billion years of evolution and unfolding of the universe bespeak the intimate sacredness of all that is.

Our lives change when our habits change.

This house has endured three of my Dad's four wives, and so over the last few decades it's been a home-size mood ring, changing to the styles and temperaments of its female inhabitants.

Marriage isn't easy, Andy," he says. "You love someone in a specific time and place. But you have no idea what they'll become. People change. Sometimes, they change so much you hardly even recognize them anymore." For

that bookshops will one day disappear altogether and be replaced by mail order, that eventually books themselves would be finally and fully buried by that awful foe, so much cheaper and easier to carry: newspapers.

Why do any animals scream when they are wounded or killed, even when those screams can have no possible utility? Why do we scream, and why has evolution designed us to consciously experience our physical pain, but not them?

So too have many other animals served us well over the ages. It was the use of livesock that first freed us from the chase, allowed man to settle and civilize himself, slowly rendering the hunter a useless and ever more ridiculous figures so engaged in what the name itself, game, implies.

So too have many other animals served us well over the ages. It was the use of livestock that first freed us from the chase, allowed man to settle and civilize himself, slowly rendering the hunter a useless and ever more ridiculous figures so engaged in what the name itself, game, implies.

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.

We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.

American women are evolving backward--becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.

Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.

Sometimes you have to leave the fucking Shire, Frodo.

What you don't realize at the time is that you're not seeing the full picture, You don't think about the fact that things will change. Things always change.

I think its agreeable to look back occasionally as one's perspective widens and one grows richer spiritually with the years

If a drought strikes them, animals perish—man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish—man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish— man writes the Constitution of the United States.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Nunca perdemos del todo aquello por lo que vivimos. Quizá a veces cambiemos su forma, sobre todo si hemos cometido un error; pero el propósito sigue el mismo, y somos nosotros quines concebimos su forma.

To say that that which was true in the 17th century cannot possibly be true today, because we travel in jet planes while they traveled in horse carts—is like saying that modern men do not need food, as men did in the past, because they are wearing trenchcoats and slacks, instead-of powdered wigs and hoop skirts.

All growth demands destruction.

Life is growth; not to move forward, is to fall backward; life remains life, only so long as it advances.