Quotes About Evolution

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

You have to grow and evolve and look towards the future.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.