John Tyler Bonner Quotes

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

Evolution is all about looking forward.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

Progress requires change.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

Change demands new learning.

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly