Quotes About Evolution

When all is said and done our resemblances to the savage are still far more numerous than our differences from him.

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the World without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.

We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around.

It's odd the way life works, the way it mutates and wanders, the way one thing becomes another.

Todas las sustancias individuales fluyen y están en movimiento, perdiendo unas partes de sí mismas y recibiendo otras que vienen a ellas de cualquier sitio.

It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain fond of her. We are relatives, after all.

Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past.

We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities, associations, repetitions, because they create meaning.

Through them, I was able to make a turn in myself, and somehow that view from the window seen alone and at night has become an image for what I now recognize as the end of my childhood.

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later.

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

When I took the job as Estée Lauder's creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.