Evolutionary Pace Quotes

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

Nature does not make leaps.

My fear is that in general terms the evolution of the political process proceeds at the same pace as the evolution of the species and I do not myself believe that that is quite fast enough

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?