Quotes about Evolution

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

Optimization hinders evolution.

For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal population, and profoundly sensitive to the density of numbers within a given habitat. Our adaptations aim to increase the population tolerance, to permit a human density ten to twelve times greater than is currently considered possible. Out of this, we will get our survival variations.

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.

The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.

Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order. And how does that help us against these disorderly women who hunt us? What branch of evolution are they? Is evolution just another name for God?

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin — only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be immortal and then only if its eggs are nurtured in widely scattered environments. This predicts a wealth of unique individuals. — Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text