Quotes About Evolution

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.

I climb the door instead of a treeJust to crawl with myself walking freeWhat if I'm a lizard beneath my skinChanging my colours of the human I've been

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.

Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break.

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

In order to grow you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?