Thursday, January 28, 2010

Thursday's Thoughts - Theme: Evolution

This Week's Theme: Evolution
“Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.” - Anthony J. D'Angelo
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.” - Richard Dawkins
“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.” - Kurt Vonnegut

3 comments:

Jodi said...

Hi,
sorry to contact you this way, I hope you don't mind; I don't have an email for you, or if I did, I lost it.
Just wanted to let you know I missed seeing you yesterday, especially missed the reliable thought provoking discussion I've come to look forward to when you are here. I totally understand about the transportation issue.
Hope to see you soon and hope you are doing great in the meantime,
~ Jodi

luizhdealmeida said...

"we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life."
If only more people could see it...

Alexis Voltaire said...

@ Almeidinha: If only. :)