Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart–the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
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Douglas Adams
Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt,...
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Charles Bukowski
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.
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Carl Sagan
He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were...
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T.h. White
This was the species whose main excuse for not doing something was 'if only I had more time'. Perfectly valid until you realised they did have more time. Not eternity, granted, but they had tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>And the day...
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Matt Haig
More Quotes By Elizabeth Kolbert
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
Ocean Acidification is sometimes referred to as Global Warming's Equally Evil Twin. The irony is intentional and fair enough as far as it goes.. No single mechanism explains all the mass extinctions in the record and yet changes in ocean chemistry seem to be a...
In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.
Amphibians–the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.
According to Lamarck, there was a force–the ‘power of life’–that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
