Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Evolution Quotes
CosmosEvolutionHumanityPotentialScience We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
DoubtEvolutionMisunderstandingPerceptionScience Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.
Animal BehaviorEvolutionHuman UniquenessIntelligenceSurvival I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
BiologyEvolutionKnowledgePredictionScience Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision.
BoldnessEvolutionGrowthVariety In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
EvolutionHuman NatureIntelligenceSurvival I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
EvolutionMusic Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.
CreativityEvolutionIdentityMusic GenreSelf-Discovery I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn't an R&B singer or nothing. Not an R&B singer. I didn't do no melodic songs, none of that yet.
CommunicationEvolutionPerspective And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
CompletionEvolutionInnovationProgressTechnology Development I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.
CreativityEvolutionPassionPracticeWriting You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
ChangeEvolutionGrowthIdentity No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
EvolutionFunctionalityProcess I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.
AstrobiologyEvolutionExtraterrestrial LifeOrigin of LifePlanetary Science If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
ComparisonEvolutionInternet BusinessPerceptionTaxonomy Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
AdaptabilityEvolutionForesightStrategySuccess One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
EvolutionLifeNatural ProcessValue of Life I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
AlignmentCollective ImpressionEvolutionInfluencePerception Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
DevelopmentEvolutionNation BuildingProgress I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
EthicsEvolutionGeneticsScienceSociety The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
EvolutionPerspectiveProgress A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
EvolutionNeurosciencePsychologySensory PerceptionSurvival Mechanisms It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
EvolutionReinventionStrategy You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.
CreativityEvolutionExpressionHumorPersistence I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'
BiologyCreativityEvolutionHuman UniquenessIntelligence Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
ComplexityEvolutionIntelligenceKey Moments In HistoryTurning Points There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.