Evolution Quotes

"When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people" "People are bloody ignorant apes." "Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." "Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain." "We are organisms that have evolved mechanisms for learning how to respond to our environments in ways that tend to increase our fitness" "In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced." "One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others." "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind" "Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception" "The process of natural selection is smarter than you are." "Expecting an organism to evolve traits just because they are useful to us is a dangerous kind of anthropocentrism." "Any meaningful understanding of our world must account for the processes of change over time." "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" "Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then." "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction "