“Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.” ThinkingWaySeeingEvolutionComputerSignificantApplicationEnginesRobustComputer Systems Author:Vinton Cerf
“It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.” WellsSoulMotherLanguageForgetTeacherWonderfulSeeingColorExpressionEvolutionTasteGardenSurpriseIntuitionDevotionCelebrationTake TimeCanvasReflectingLightingSleevesArtistryMother NatureBest TeacherPaletteIt Takes TimeChanges Over Time Author:Christopher McDowell
“I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.” ThinkingImportantEyeRunningLevelsSeeingDesignProduceEvolutionCapableIllusionClaimsWingsLegsDrivingFlyingAdaptation Author:Richard Dawkins
“What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.” IfsWorldMindFactsWould BeHalfAcceptingSeeingModernEvolutionRootsEssenceOutcomesModern WorldSuitableUneasiness Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, more roll with changing ways of seeing. Maybe adapting is a better way to see this.” WayChildrenParentSeeingCreationTaughtEvolutionCreedsBetter WaysLiteralAdapting Author:Frank Schaeffer
“Right now, culturally, we're seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right? The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.” PeopleWorldIdeasSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousInterestingNumbersSeeingEvolutionRight NowDroppingReally Interesting Author:Adam Frank
“And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps will ever do. But surely ... they would have put it into spirits, or into the Illustrated News, or perhaps cut it into two halves, poor dear little thing, and sent one to Professor Owen, and one to Professor Huxley, to see what they would each say about it.” MindLittlesTwoDifferentScienceSpiritWaterPoorHalfCuttingSeeingBabyEvolutionNewsDearDifferent ThingsLittle ThingsProfessorsHuxley Author:Charles Kingsley
“Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.” DifferentEndsMightScienceTakenSeeingGroupsEvolutionDiversityBirdOriginalsStructureSpeciesRelatedFancy Book:On the Origin of Species Source: On the Origin of Species
“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.” ThinkingMenWorldYearsFirstsBelieveKindMayChildrenPersonsMadeImportantReasonHappensTodayDiesThreeEasyDecisionFateSeeingHappenedChildhoodEvolutionTomorrowBedBehaviorSixHappeningsDecidedIncrediblesYesterdayNobilityWorld TodayDegradationEarly ChildhoodSix Year OldsImportant Decisions Author:Eric Berne
“I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.” ThinkingMenMadeIdeasNumbersSeeingEvolutionProjectsScientistOriginalsDollarsClimateClimate ChangeDataGlobal WarmingQuestioningRollingOriginal Ideas Author:Rick Perry