Quotes About Adaptation

Human beings are evolving into something different," he declared. "We are becoming a hybrid species—a fusion of biology and technology.

In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.

If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.

Consider this!" Edmond declared. "It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took only a few thousand years to invent the printing press. Then it took only a couple hundred years to build a telescope. In the centuries that followed, in ever-shortening spans, we bounded from the steam engine, to gas-powered automobiles, to the Space Shuttle! And then, it took only two decades for us to start modifying our own DNA!

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

Darwin's theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certain that the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the eighteenth-century composer who, upon going deaf, discovered he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone.

desperate times offered a certain flexibility in the rules of absolution.

We evolved from apes and we're going extinct.

there is only one way Christianity will survive the coming age of science. We must stop rejecting the discoveries of science. We must stop denouncing provable facts. We must become a spiritual partner of science, using our vast experience—

Tengo que dejar de ser tan esnob, se recordó a sí mismo. Al final los ebooks sí tienen sus cosas buenas.

between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens.

But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

I can't wait for this to come out in the movies in October!

Trish would have said impossible, but the I-word was banned here. Katherine considered it a dangerous mind-set in a field that often transformed preconceived falsehoods into confirmed truths.

Humor cannot be programmed…it must be learned.

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf

Never struggle with anyone or anything. When you're pushed, pull; when you're pulled, push.

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

Stress happens when the mind resists what is.