Quotes About Evolution

The female of species is deadlier than the male.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Nothing great has great beginnings.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more." ? Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice

Quintilian said—"Prefer the oldest of the new and the newest of the old." Pope put this in rhyme and it still holds good: In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

But one group did. By 3.5 billion years ago, bacteria had emerged, and continue to this day as the most populous kind of organism on Earth.

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads....

Man, I think you're actually proud of being a Luddite.

There came a day when the Masons, laying aside their stones, became workmen of another kind, not less builders than before, but using truths for tools and dramas for designs, uplifting such a temple as Watts dreamed of decorating with his visions of the august allegory of the evolution of man.

Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists.

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Perfection is the child of time.

It happens to everyone and it happens fast.

When altruistic behavior benefits individuals belonging to another species, it is impossible for the gene to be benefiting some other copy of itself.

There are a variety of traits that set humans apart from our closest primate relatives. The "big four" are language, rationality, culture, and morality (or in more precise terms, "syntacticized language," "domain-general intelligence," "cumulative cultural inheritance," and "ultrasociality").

More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly with the intricacy and richness of the outside environment." The irony is that, "unlike the animals, whose cognitive powers have always been relatively deficient, we have created our own deficiency by constructing a radically more complex world.

Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

Wie eine alte Tür weist jeder Mann von einem bestimmten Alter an historische Verwerfungen und Risse der einen oder anderen Art auf, und eine Frau, die ihn ernsthaft in Gebrauch nehmen möchte, muss darauf gefasst sein, das sie einiges zu schmirgeln und zu hobeln hat.

Evolutionary theory suggests that we should embrace all of our emotions, as each has an important role to play under the right circumstances. So, though you may seek ways to increase happiness, don't haphazardly push away your sadness. No doubt, it's there for good reason.