Quotes about Evolution

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

I am always pleasantly surprised by the criticism because I learn from it and sometimes shocked by it.

Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.

Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.

To evolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrection. That's the basic motif of the universal hero's journey—leaving one condition and finding the source of life to bring you forth into a richer or mature condition.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Like life, the beauty of sports is that no two periods are identical.

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.

If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.

Every year, I push myself to do something different - and push the boundaries a little bit more.