Quotes About Transformation

Di media vuelta y me largué hacia la noche. Y en mi vida entró la magia. Y ahí sigue.

wow, a change, you know. that's what kills a man: lack of change.

kimi beynini yitirip ruha dönüÅŸür: deli. kimi ruhunu yitirip beyne dönüÅŸür: entelektüel. kimi ikisini de yitirir ve kabul görür.

El tiempo no transcurría en tanto la existencia se iba transformando en algo insoportable.

Vogt, Leopold, Murphy, and their associates were not truly in this elitist company; in fact, they helped begin the transformation in which environmental issues switched from being a cause of the right to one of the left. Nonetheless, they shared much of the racial alarmists' intellectual framework and often dismissed nonwhites in terms that read uncomfortably today.

Britain had just converted its entire fleet from the unsteady power of wind to the constant force provided by coal. Now, Churchill declared, Britain had to transform its navy a second time. Burning a pound of fuel oil produces about twice as much energy as burning a pound of coal. An oil-fueled ship could thus travel roughly twice as far as a coal-fueled ship of similar size. Oil's greater energy density meant that it, rather than coal, was the fossil fuel of choice.

Preventing Homo sapiens from destroying itself à la Gause would require a still greater transformation, to Margulis's way of thinking, because we would be pushing against Nature itself. Success would be unprecedented, biologically speaking. It would be a reverse Copernican Revolution, showing that humankind is exempt from natural processes that govern all other species. But might we be able to do exactly that? Might Margulis have got this one wrong? Might we indeed be special?

After Columbus everything changed. The Indian population collapsed. Clams and mussels exploded in number; they also grew larger. Game overran the land. Sir Francis Drake sailed into San Francisco's harbor in 1579 and saw a land of plenty.

When God looks at you in Christ, He does not see your impurities; He sees you in Christ.

When you first start confessing God's Word about a situation in your life, you are causing faith to come. As you continue to speak God's Word, you destroy the old image and perfect a new image inside you. When you're quoting God's Word over a situation, but are looking at the very opposite, then you have to cast down the image you are seeing with your physical eye. You bring it down, because the weapons of your warfare are not carnal; they are spiritual forces flowing from within you.

Though the first stages of confession may not seem to do anything, they are changing an image and causing faith to come. Faith comes by hearing God's Word. Keep hearing yourself speak God's Word, and faith will come.

Let me paraphrase what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:18: If you don't get rid of that image of looking at the seen, and produce another image inside you, then the afflictions of life will not work in you an eternal weight of glory. But they will, if you're looking at the things that are not seen.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

interpositions

It has already been stated that various parts in the same individual, which are exactly alike during an early embryonic period, become widely different and serve for widely different purposes in the adult state. So again it has been shown that generally the embryos of the most distinct species belonging to the same class are closely similar, but become, when fully developed, widely dissimilar.

I find I look at this province with very different eyes then when I arrived. I recollect I then thought of it as singularly level, but now after galloping over the montañas my own only surprise is what could have induced me to have ever called it level!

In a series of forms graduating insensibly from some apelike creature to man as he now exists, it would be impossible to fix on any definite point where the term 'man' ought to be used.

Why is The Origin of Species such a great book? First of all, because it convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: it provides a vast and well-chosen body of evidence showing that existing animals and plants cannot have been separately created in their present forms, but must have evolved from earlier forms by slow transformation.

we are always slow in admitting great changes of which we do not see the steps.

Natura non facit saltum.

I have read heaps of agricultural & horticultural books, & have never ceased collecting facts— At last gleams of light have come, & I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Lettre To Joseph Dalton Hooker [11 January 1844]

evolution is written on the wings of butterflies

Celui qui n'évolue pas disparaît.

Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.