#evolution

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#french #french revolution #i #i think #instance

In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a waste. Trees are extravagant. Tree trunks are standing monuments to futile competition - futile if we think in terms of a planed economy. But the natural economy is not planned. Individual plants compete with other plants, of the same and other species, and the result is that they grow taller and taller, far taller than any planner would recommend. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #trees #design

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present. ↗

— Scott Cook

#already #because #even #greatest #made

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking. ↗

— Scott Cook

#business #company #consumer #could #idea

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages. ↗

— Tim Cook

#because #change #early #early stages #revolution

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. ↗

— Ted Danson

#been #believe #created #dominate #evolution

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible. ↗

— John Ambrose Fleming

#evolution #incredible #quite

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. ↗

— John Ambrose Fleming

#explain #inadequate #inorganic #manifestation #origin

We completely reject the theory of evolution. ↗

— John Ambrose Fleming

#evolution #reject #theory

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product. ↗

— Peter Gabriel

#artist #being #enables #evolution #idea