Quotes About Evolution

Engineered genes don't play by the rules that have organized life for three billion years (or, if you prefer, 4,004). And in this case, winning means loser takes all.

First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival.

People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.

To live is to be marked, she said without speaking. To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.

The day comes, they hand you a new rule book.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story

I was still a bit appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microbes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting for the dollies. We and our vermin all blossomed together out of the same humid soil in the Great Rift Valley, and so far no one is really winning.

Marriages tended to harden like arteries..

So much human effort went into alteration of non-essential components

today's problems can't be solved by today's people, we just keep shoring up our bankruptcy with the only tools we know. Making up more and more complicated stories about how we haven't failed.

the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.

times than we ever have known.

It was hard to see where all this could possibly go when it melted.

If you do not fill your energetic field with new experiences, new ideas, and new versions of yourself, your field becomes dim and worn, bored with the same old story.

the path of change is unpredictable.

Conscious Evolution Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of evolution and are now being transformed by it. Barbara Marx Hubbard

Nuestro patrón de vida pasada no es sostenible. El tiempo planetario nos está moviendo hacia la siguiente fase de evolución, o devolución e incluso extinción.

Tilting the head to the side is a submission signal because it exposes the throat and neck and makes the person look smaller and less threatening. Its probable origin is in the baby resting its head on its parent's shoulder or chest, and the submissive, nonthreatening meaning it conveys seems to be unconsciously understood by most people, especially women.

Siamo mutanti, tutti, alcuni piu' evoluti, altri meno, c'e' chi e' un po' in ritardo, c'e' chi non si e' accorto di niente, chi fa tutto per istinto e chi e' consapevole, chi fa finta di non capire e chi non capira' mai, chi punta i piedi e chi corre all'impazzata in avanti.

Kanezaki," I said. He spun, startled to hear my voice so close. "Shit," he said, perhaps a little embarrassed. I smiled. He looked a little older than he had the last time I had seen him, leaner, more seasoned. The wire-rimmed glasses no longer made him look bookish. Instead, they gave his face… focus, somehow. Precision.

mutatis mutandis

Some people just need a routine, and refuse to accept the consequences of predictability. In my experience, these people tend to get culled, often sooner, sometimes later. It's a Darwinian world out there.

It's hard for the most primal, powerful regions of the mind to abandon habits that were once crucial to the organism's survival, even when the higher mind recognizes those habits are no longer warranted.

For some, the distance between who you were and who you have become is unbridgeable, and the dissonance attempted repatriation creates is a constant reminder of the very changes you want so badly to forget. When