Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. Read Summary
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Read Summary
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. Read Summary
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. Read Summary
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. Read Summary
People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve. Read Summary
The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life? Read Summary
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Read Summary
Evolution never looks to the future. Read Summary
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. Read Summary
Islands are natural workshops of evolution. Read Summary
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. Read Summary
You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too. Read Summary
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Read Summary
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine. Read Summary
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision. Read Summary
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. Read Summary
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. Read Summary
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see? Read Summary
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Read Summary