Quotes about Evolution

People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals had sacrificed it in specializing their digits. Carnivores run, stab, and scratch. My cat may manipulate me psychologically, but he'll never type or play the piano.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.

... life, by definition, is never still.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.