#evolution

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #business

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#change

I want to make love to the French Revolution. Or maybe just get some head from Robespierre. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#conflict #evolution #inspirational-quotes #language #mankind

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#disruption #doubt #order #revolution #system

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#evolution #intelligence #thought #intelligence

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#brains #evolution #humor #intelligence #love

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#been #biological #book #certain #completely

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. ↗

— Bela Bartok

#developments #essentially #evolution #fast #matter

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#job #make #revolution #writer