Quotes About Change

As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.

The sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness.

The child, like Greene himself, is a traveller; the adult has arrived:

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow.

And after night comes day, or more night, depending on the particular time-frame you choose to apply to your perspective.

And now it's afterwards. The worse of it is: it will always be afterwards now.

The nineteenth-century abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker said that the moral arc of the world tends towards justice

Duplication and transfer from other genetic sources are examples of nature's ability to co-opt existing tools: evolution the tinkerer. Evolution also creates from scratch. We call these de novo mutations, and they arise when a seemingly nonsensical run of DNA mutates and changes into a readable sentence.

This is a strange conundrum that betrays our difficulties with classifying life, and our adherence to a system that was designed to show the perfection of divine creation, organisms static in time and set in stone as they stand before us. Darwin's great idea ruined that ideal, because he recognized that life passes through time, and changes continually. The only life forms that don't change are dead ones.

For our purposes, if we are to look at the evolution that led to where we are now, instead of the nice neat tree, I think it could reasonably be described as one big, million-year clusterfuck.

Are we still evolving?' is a question that geneticists get asked a lot. Here is the answer: yes.

As long as humans keep having sex and that sex results in more humans, then we are evolving. We can avoid these evolutionary changes no more easily than we can change the weather.

The revolution was not televised; it was livestreamed.

Life is transition: The only things that are truly static are already dead.

The pressures of natural selection have undoubtedly changed as a result of the evolution of our behavior and culture, but milk shows that, just as in every organism that has ever lived, over time our genes continue to change.

The second point is that the world in which we live is shaped by us, by our practices and culture, by our very existence, and our DNA responds to that in turn. Genes change culture, culture changes genes.

Every evolutionary pathway is unique, and while all living beings are related, how each one came to be is a different story, with different pressures driving selection, and random changes in DNA providing the template from which variation, selection and evolutionary change can occur. Evolution is blind, mutation is random, selection is not.

We expect 2016 to be the warmest year ever, primarily because of climate change but around 25% because of El Niño"

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

It was hard not to grieve for all the pleasant things that were gone. While they were there I had accepted them unthinkingly and without thanks.

Living with real children can be humbling. Every morning I would tell myself, "Today is going to be different

It's important for these youngsters to realize that if they're genuinely sorry their feelings of remorse should be translated into action. The "repeat offender" can be told any of the following: "Sorry means behaving differently." "Sorry means making changes." "I'm glad to hear you're sorry. That's the first step. The second step is to ask yourself what can be done about it.