Quotes about Evolution

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world.

We have only to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.