Quotes about Evolution

I am who I was and who I will be.

what you brought from your past, is of no use in your present. When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

When your art fails, make better art.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

But the problem becomes even worse. For, regardless of immortality, if there is no God, then there is no objective standard of right and wrong. All we're confronted with is, in Sartre's words, "the bare, valueless fact of existence." Moral values are either just expressions of personal taste or the by-products of biological evolution and social conditioning.

Science, according to Kuhn, has not actually followed the classic myth of steady evolution of accumulating theories based on deeper and deeper probing of the evidence. Rather, science has sometimes made huge transitions as one paradigm, which may have stood for centuries, is found to be inadequate and crashes to the ground, to be replaced by another.

When you figure out where you're messing up and you hate that behavior bad enough, that's where all the good parts of you begin.