Sydney Brenner Quotes

People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.

Sydney Brenner

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• According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Green
  • Progression
  • Royalty

• Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • High
  • Risk
  • Race

• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Learning
  • Literature

• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Management
  • Function

• Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Progression

• The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Movie
  • Single
  • Magic

• I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evolution

• Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Earth
  • Race
  • Evolution

• I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Shopping
  • Evolution
  • Cleaning

• Plato... introduces two infinities, because both in increase and diminution there appears to be transcendency, and a progression to infinity. Though... he did not use them: for neither is there infinity in numbers by diminution or division; since unity is a minimum: nor by increase; for he extends number as far as to the decad.

  

  Aristotle
  • Plato
  • Progression
  • Infinity

• The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Evolution
  • Principle
  • Dogma

• When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Help

• Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wall
  • Social
  • Function

• The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Law
  • Running
  • Habit

• Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Energy

• A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Movie
  • Function
  • Sets

• The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Knowledge
  • Function
  • Psychic

• In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics. Where the Second Law expressed an irreversible progression toward increased entropy and disorder, life evolves continually higher levels of order. The still more remarkable fact is that this evolutionary drive to greater and greater order also is irreversible. Evolution does not go backward.

  

  J. H. Rush
  • Life
  • Evolution
  • DIsoder

• Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God

  

  Pythagoras
  • Life
  • Law
  • Evolution

• I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me skiing and God is kind of like an eagle right next to me screeching in my ear that everything is going to be all good. I just try my best and that's all I can ask for.

  

  Nicholas Charles Goepper
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Ears

• The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Helping

• I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

  

  Diogo Morgado
  • Christian
  • Actually
  • Could

• I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Advice
  • Being
  • Create

• People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.

  

  Sydney Brenner
  • Evolution
  • Function
  • Progression