#evolution

In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest. At a time when mass marketing of food produces a product so disgusting that it has to be wrapped in distracting gimmicks to be sold, the mere fact of paying attention to what you eat and drink and telling the truth about taste is a revolutionary act. ↗

— Lynn Hoffman

#food #knowledge #revolution #snobs #taste

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #inspirational #life #nature #science

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

When I was very young the world was flat and colorless but as I grew older it acquired shape, first round, then a sphere and as I grow old it is infinite in all its dimensions and scope. ↗

— Sesame April

#evolution #life #world #age

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#evolutions #i #innovations #instruments #kind

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothing #creativity #designer #evolution #fashion

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#against #conservatism #conservative #destructive #eminently

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop. ↗

— David Eagleman

#evolution #science #intelligence

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#intelligence #intelligence

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#dogs #night #over #revolution #russia